As scattered showers continue. Marin county received heaviest rainfall and reservoirs there are spilling over. Wayne freedman joins us live with the latest. Wayne . The creek is the place everyone thinks about when they think about big water in marin county. Flood stage is 13 feet they think if theyre going to see big water this is the place to go, after 17 ivenlgs of rain, this is nothing. To see a dramatic example of how much rain has fallen, it requires a bit of a still, that is not the impressive part. This is. Youre looking at alpine dam. The lake is so full, water touches the shore line. These areas are now spilling over. This system is that one reservoir is closed over to another. As of this morning marin county storage is almost 131 of normal for this date thanks to a December Christmas present in the form of rainfall. 17 inches for the month. The month is only half hour. It leads to a question, is the drought over, too . Marin benefits from a rain system built to catch rain, n
Children that have not been vaccinated yet. An adult came and shopped at this cosco and then went across the street to a walmart and then ate at a rest raupt, in total exposing hundreds of people to measles. This flier warning them about a possible exposure to measles, a highly contagious viral disease. Last sunday someone with measles who was still in the infectious stage shopped here between 4 00 p. M. And 6 00 p. M. Amy butler is pregnant and shopped here with her husband and 2yearold daughter. The potential exposure caught her off guard. Exposing our friends and family and possible outbreak for california having already been in los angeles area. And it is not the only store where hundreds may have been exposed to measles. At this walmart across the street, similar notices are posted at the registers because the same person with measles shopped here, too, january 18th. Nick brown did his shopping tonight and never saw the notices. It should have been somewhere more noticeable like o
At peak wind gusts. 62 Miles Per Hour winds at Oakland Hills 52 Miles Per Hour at napa airport. Winds about 2040 Miles Per Hour. And so here is our wind gust animation, Winds Continuing to be strong overnight and into morning but into evening well see winds beginning to taper off and moderate. And one of the biggest problems is interstate 80 showing red in both directions there. Abc7 news is live now with an update. Tiffany . Crews showed up just about a half hour ago, able to take down that telephone pole line that had been knocked down there. And at the same time, crews are forming an assembly line. Some using chain saws and others clearing branchs thousands are stacked up, waiting to get through the pinch point so theyre working as quickly as possible. The trees branchs span eastbound lanes and a car was hit by a tree. Then on the westbound side, you can see wires that were live wires. Chp shut down highway 80 as crews came to clear the wires which they have done. At this point, all
Once that rain starts to subside by about 2 00, 3 00, were talking about potential for some strong thunderstorms, especially over the santa cruz mountains. Then as we head through tomorrow, another system comes through, by wednesday, well get a little bit of a break, still tracking on and off showers likely. Then thursday, drying you out for one day only. Big weekend for holiday travel. We have a very potent system on the way. Weve got a lot to go over in the full forecast. The three systems coming your way this week. Plus, let you know how much rainfall we are expecting. Ill also have the averages for this season. You might be blown away with where we stand thanks to the rain from last week. Thats all coming up. Right now, back to you, scott. Toppled trees and power lines, nbc bay areas bob redell is live in san jose. Was anyone hurt . Reporter good morning there, laura. Yes, the wind was so strong in south san jose, it snapped two power poles in half. Youre looking at timber that was
Blowing sideways, even in San Francisco right now, that cell moving right over the sf area. A lot of this rain continues to trail down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, east bay, and trivalley. The thing about this system, its been with us for a few days and now the core, the very center of it, is sitting right here off the San Francisco bay and is expected to move through today. The other thing, we have more showers and thunderstorms trailing along the core right ahead of it, so this main push is going to come through over the next couple of hours and then after that we will finally start to see our conditions start to improve. Until then, you can see the radar lit up through 3 00, 4 00, the heavy line of storms pushing towards sacramento by then and here in the bay area, well start to dry out. There will be patchy showers along the Santa Cruz Mountains and some of the easternfacing slopes, even across the north bay. I think over the next couple of hours the heavy batch of rain will be our