Coming in. Good afternoon, im michelle griego. Frank is on assignment this afternoon. Trees and power lines came crashing down in todays storm creating a nightmare commute for some people. Kpix 5s kiet do with a look at some of the worst trouble spots around the bay. Reporter first it was the flooding and now its the trees. The backtobacktoback storms have saturated the ground so on highway 17 this morning a large pine tree dragged down power lines when it toppled over. Traffic was a mess as all lanes were blocked for three hours. In lafayette trees fell blocking record rainfall in one of the wettest december starts softening root systems making trees vulnerable. This is where me and my kids and my husband sleep at. With. Reporter another storm is on the way and the shelter is extending its invitation through the week. 52 people stayed here last night. A school raised money so one woman could buy Christmas Gifts for her children. That makes me happy. Kiet do, kpix 5. The red cross will
High at 75. Is a lean as downtown and airport broke the previous record. Here in the bay area it was plenty warm around half machine bay. 72 degrees 67 oak land. 63 santa rosa. San jose moffitt field out towards livermore. Heres live view from the east bay hills camera where the sky hills camera where the skies are clear but the air quality continues to suffer. Tomorrow is another spare the air day. Poor air quality for most of the bay area. Moderate for the South Central bay. Let you know when you can expect an improvement in the air quality coming right up. Amma. All right thank you so much sandhya. Well if you spend any time outside today you likely notice the haze that sandhya was talking about. 7 News Reporter vick lee tells you what is needed to finally clear out the air. The air seems like it is fresh and clean. But its not. Just ask amber she moved to idaho 6 months ago. I came back i was extremely surprised by how the cloud of pollution you can see coming into the area. Its pr
This morning. These are sustained winds but we have gusty winds to deal with before all the winds retreat out of the west, 10 to 15 miles an hour. Rainfall totals since friday, have a look. San francisco approaching an inch and a half. Right now, elizabeth, how are the roads . Slick roads, wind and debris, could slow you down. We have had a few different incidents, probably the biggest one, westbound 580 at Mountain House. It was an overturned big rig and theres an unofficial wind advisory here. Gusts may have had something to do with this. Traffic is stacking up there as well. Bay bridge, another high advisory in effect. Thats traffic. Back to you. Thank you. Ryan is on skyline boulevard in the Oakland Hills this morning, where a giant tree came down on a driveway, narrowly missing a house. Reporter theres plenty of wind up here and has been for a couple days. This is what it looked like yesterday. The mix of wind and rain violently swept across the bay area. When i heard the cracking
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 datehanks 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, not snow. The water spilled along storm drains and became a torrent by the time it reaches the falls. Last year at this time theyre just a trickle. Now, the closest thing to n niagara falls. That is what you get after 17 inches of rain. From marin county, wayne freedman, abc7 news looking are looking better. A week of storms raised water levels by seven feet. The folsom reservoir is only 37 but that is better than last january, when its just 17 . Lakes orville and shasta
For all bay areas. Were here at the bay bridge and any vehicle with high profile, a van or truck, it will be tricky coming across the bridge into San Francisco. If you were thinking of taking bart perhaps you want to think again. Heres a problem with the bart in San Francisco this afternoon. A tree blew down onto the track near the balboa park bart station and service was stopped for most of the afternoon. It started around 1 00 and carried on until just recently. As you can imagine passengers very frustrated. They didnt tell us much just that the trains werent working at all. Theres no trains moving. Im going back to atlanta. Struggling. Theyve got limited equipment. Looks lying lightweight chain saws and into heavy moving equipment. So they have a challenge. They finally did get it clear and that line in San Francisco is now completely open. But it wasnt just San Francisco. At one point three of the five bart lines were down between Castro Valley and dublin pleasanton line is now ope