Weather for you, daly city and san bruno. 280 by the airport and finally around Mount Hamilton. You could see some snowy peaks tomorrow along with perhaps mount tam is our own local snow levels continue to lower, so far we havent seen a whole lot, but it is a level two system looking for the possibility of thunderstorms and very gusty winds through tonight. And heres a look at the 24 hour rainfall totals from anywhere from 0. 63. In santa rosa, 5100 brentwood, oakland. A third of an inch. And look at these winds 35 to 40 mile an hour sustained winds all over the bay area. Quite gusty, but upper elevations 50 to 55 miles. An hour from the Oakland Hills to mount diablo. So we have our wind advisory throughout the day today. And taking us through tomorrow all over the bay area in the next few hours. Its going to be rainy if youre headed out tonight. The rain continues to sink to the south and were going to see those downpours. Chance of a thunderstorm right on through early saturday, so its going to be messy. Its nothing we cant handle in terms of rainfall, but with more rain over the weekend and well talk about how much potential rainfall were going to see. And of course the blizzard warning, how much snow is coming their way with my extended outlook in just a few minutes, all right, lisa, well see you then. Its going to be a wild weekend in the sierra. Already. Snow has been coming down heavily and we already mentioned those wild winds. Want to give you a live picture from the soda springs. Caltrans camera. This is along 80. And again a christian kristin mentioned a few minutes ago. I mean, visibility is close to zero. There so much snow and no traffic right now. Yeah thats a good idea. Now to abc seven News Reporter cornell bernard, because he joins us live from Placer County with an urgent warning for travelers. Cornell yeah, kristen and larry that warning coming from the chp and it is. Stay home. Dont travel through the sierra this weekend for sure. But we have seen a lot of cars here in the last couple of hours heading east on interstate 80, east is that way, and thats where a blizzard is causing a lot of chaos for eastbound traffic. Chains are required on all vehicles. A fierce sierra blizzard is unleashing punishing winds, snow and near whiteout conditions. Heres the scene facing drivers on interstate 80 over donner summit. If you could make it this far, that is. Road conditions have been changing by the hour. Shut down traffic as well. Canyons. Caltrans has this checkpoint set up in applegate, making sure big rig drivers have chains for the journey, but some truckers forgot to pack them and i couldnt go no further because i didnt have chains. The trucker jason delbianco is heading to salt lake city. Im expecting to have to put on some chains and im hoping that the local government will let us know if its too unsafe to go over the pass. When is the blizzard supposed to start . Actually, its hitting right now. Its going right now. Tony skolnick says he didnt know about the Severe Weather ahead. Where are you going . Reno theres a blizzard. Yeah i have to go there, unfortunately. And now i gotta turn around and come back. So hopefully for some safe travels, the chp posting this warning on acts about a mess in the sierra throughout the weekend, and that travel is highly discouraged. Whats your advice to people heading to tahoe . I towed up on that summit for 15 years. Stay home. Dont go. Ted. Lois heading to idaho in his rv towing a jeep. He says hes willing to risk the treacherous drive. Were going to go until we cant go no more, and then well cab up, turn the heater on. When it blows over, well keep on trucking. Yeah, keep on trucking. And we certainly wish ted some good luck. Were back. Live with the shot of that checkpoint here in applegate. Caltrans making sure that all these semi trucks do have chains for the travel for the trip across the sierra 880 was closed for about an hour this morning after a semi jackknifed. And we have just learned from caltrans that eastbound 80 is closed. Two big rigs from here in applegate to the nevada state line. So these trucks will certainly not be going too far in the next couple of hours. Again the advice to avoid this area if you can. Were live in Placer County. Applegate cornell. Bernard abc seven news. All right. Thanks, cornell. Right now lets give you a live look from the palisades resort. Live camera, where you can see the parking lot. Theres some workers there, but its not packed with people because the resort is closed like so many others are. At least over a dozen because it is simply too dangerous right now. Abc seven News Reporter suzanne fan checked in with some of the ski resorts and joins us live now from the newsroom. Suzanne, larry, christine, powerful winds and heavy snow are hitting the lake tahoe area hard. More is coming with each passing hour, and experts say its possible we may break some records all over truckee. Snow is flying. People are moving fast to clear away the snow from sidewalks and roads. Their cars and homes and people are bracing for more snow to slam into the sierra. Well, i think its crazy. We respect this storm this year so this looks like its snowing so hard right now. I mainly worried about the wind. Not so much the snow. Its the wind. I saw a big rig yesterday that was totally flipped over. It was gnarly. So much snow is expected. More than a dozen ski resorts have closed, including palisades tahoe. Last night we received 17in of snow and theres been mile per hour wind gusts. So were actually going to uh. Were closed today. The palisades side, as well as the alpine side, is closed for the day. An avalanche threat is a major concern. So crews are working to mitigate the risk. We will be bombing the mountain, you know, today, tomorrow and even sunday. Tuck wilson lives in olympic valley, about a half a mile from palisades. Its blowing really hard. Its blowing hard. Its been snowing hard. Heres how it looked from his deck today. He too has been busy working to clear away the snow. He knows its going to keep coming with conditions expected to get even wilder. You know, id like to say the snows falling hard, but actually the snows been going sideways. Hard in soda springs at the central sierra snow lab, the lead scientist says this blizzard could break their modern day record of about 3. 5ft of snow in a single day that was set in 1989. Right now, with the way the storm is looking, uh, we could potentially get into the top ten snowiest days. Um, at the snow lab, all the snow headed to the sierra is great for the states snowpack. This is great for the sierra. This is great for the ski resorts. The mountain operators. For now, its about just making it through the weekend in the last 30 years, i havent heard the National WeatherService Issue 120 inch. You know, blizzard warning like this. So we could set some records in short terms. And this is the most powerful storm of the season. Its hitting from north of lake tahoe to south Yosemite National park. Thats a 300 mile stretch. Live in the newsroom suzanne fan abc seven news. Wow just incredible suzanne. Thanks. Back here in the bay area, were seeing some pretty good waves. This video was shot this afternoon near pacifica. You can see the high surf here at pacifica pier. Pgandes has opened its Emergency Operations center. As it gets ready for the storm. It already has crews prepositioned in the sierra and the northern part of the state, just in case of outages. We also have plenty of equipment stockpiled and ready to go so that as we start to see damage to things like poles, wires and other pieces of equipment, we dont have to leave the area. Its going to be right at hand. And pgandes also has helicopters and four wheel drive vehicles on standby to get to remote areas. This storm, not expected to cause many problems here in the bay area, but crews will keep an eye on the peninsula, which has seen trees topple in recent storms. You can track the rain and the snow all the wind throughout the weekend with the abc seven bay area apps. Just search abc seven bay area in your devices app store and download it now. In the south bay, the Silicon Valley index has been released and those behind it say that while things are not at their best, theres still some growth. Abc seven news south bay reporter zach fuentes has more Silicon Valley leaders, organizations and Community Members all came together to look at the findings of the 2024 Silicon Valley index, focusing in largely on santa clara and san mateo counties. Silicon valley index is Silicon Valleys annual physical exam. Its like going to the Doctors Office and seeing how healthy you are. Released annually by joint venture Silicon Valley, the index analyzes multiple categories from housing, employment, equity, health, and more. The findings were reviewed friday at the state of the valley conference at san jose state university. The data is used by nonprofits, businesses and local leaders, seeing on a macro scale whether our efforts are actually making a difference in the areas that we are seeking to improve peoples conditions is a tremendous tool for us to be able to evaluate, recalibrate, if necessary, as a whole. The report finds that the regional economy is showing resilience. Thanks in part to thriving innovation. Still income and wealth divides have grown. Silicon valleys achilles heel is housing. Its the nations most highly priced housing, and its out of reach for 75 of our workforce. And so no surprise, we also continue to see our Homeless Population grow. The index found that there were 36,000 layoffs since august of 2022, something it attributed to employment demand that spiked in the pandemic and is now waning. But its not all bad news for many of those laid off ziprecruiter show that most of those layoffs are landing on their feet within three months, and thats how the valley rolls. Despite good news in many areas, leaders say it also shows that there is much more work to be done, especially as it relates to wealth inequalities and homelessness. If we dont get a handle on stemming that that flow into homelessness, we cannot build our way out of it. We cant pay our way out of it. In san jose, zach fuentes, abc seven news coming up on abc seven news at four. Waymo back in the game, the new developments on the companys expansion into other markets. We are just days away from the election. Just ahead, the latest polls and whos ahead. One race that might surprise you and preserving an important piece of San Francisco i see my husband. 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Our republican opponent here on this stage has voted for donald trump twice. Mr. Garvey, you voted for him twice. As your own man, what is your decision . Garvey is wrong for california. But garveys surging in the polls. Fox news says garvey would be a boost to republican control of the senate. Stop garvey. Adam schiff for senate. Im adam schiff, and i approve this message. A mirror on the right. You can see the storm is very active. You can see the cells moving through the bay area here, but thats just rain here. Over there in tahoe. It is snow and it is strong winds. It is dangerous conditions as well. The full forecast in just a few minutes. A new poll shaking up the primary race for californias open senate seat. This is only days before voters head to the polls. Next week, the l. A. Times poll has republican steve garvey surging to the top, with 27 of support, followed by democratic congressman adam schiff at 25. Congresswoman katie porter is next with 19. East bay representative barbara lee walking up to cast her vote today at Prescott Middle School in west oakland. Now shes polling at only 8 for the open senate seat. The two top vote getters will face off in the general election. And that is coming up. Of course, in november. All right. Joining me now to talk more about whats going on with these polls is abc seven news insider phil matier. Lets start with the race for senate, because yesterday we had a poll that showed schiff being in the lead ahead of garvey and so its a question of which poll you believe, but i think its an indication that its close. Right and the polls are within what they call the margin of error. But one thing is clear shift and garvey are number one in number two, whichever you want it to be. And why is steve garvey, who had only about a million and a half dollars to campaign all the way across california, surging so big . Well the answer is adam schiff, the democrat who spent about 45 million on tv ads in these recent weeks promoting garvey in a very backhanded way, saying that garvey is the republican in the race. Garvey is basically the boogeyman in everybody should be made aware of that. Well, what he did was he raised steve garveys profile higher and higher. And while that resonated while that attack on steve garvey turned democrats off on him, it turned republican owens onto him. They didnt even know he was running. And his numbers have just been going up and up and up. And schiff planned it that way because up till then, schiff was running against katie porter and barbara lee. And if one of those came in in â– the second spot, he would have a tough race come november. But if he has a republican in the race, its an easy walk for a blue state democrat. So hes actually without lifting a finger, but spending a lot of money having garvey looks like hes going to be in the runoff with him. I would say spending 45 million is lifting more than a finger, but its not his finger, right . Yeah yeah. Everybody donating . No. You know, its insane how much money was spent on this race that from the get go it was california was going to elect a democrat. Okay. That money could have been used in races in montana, in michigan, all over smaller states. But no, it went on here. Some of this is just vanity by the democrats. Yeah. You also have three democrats splitting the vote. So once they all come together, im not sure steve garvey has a chance to win. No, he doesnt have a chance to win. And thats why they the idea is to get him in the run up because hes guaranteed not going to win. Well, you know, if im adam schiff, im saying this is smart. There it is. Exactly what i need to do. Lets turn to local politics. The race for San Francisco mayor aaron peskin seems poised to jump into the race. Are you surprised by that . No. Yes i would say, because saying no because initially, yes. Because a year ago he was he wasnt thought of favorably by a lot of the voters. He himself was saying, ive got so many negatives. I dont really necessarily want to do this. I dont think i could get elected, but in the last couple of months, as weve seen, a series of polls come out that show that london mayor, mayor, london breed is in serious trouble and that the moderates have sort of split up that field. Shes facing up from dan lurie, a philanthropist, and from a former acting mayor. Uh mike mark farrell and by supervisor assaf rai. But, larry, theres 33 of the vote in San Francisco, which is really to the left. Okay. It just is. Always has been. And peskin now thinks that he can tap into that. And his numbers in these recent polls have actually people have put him in and he looks good. So he warmed up. Hes now warming up to the idea. And that means hes asking people, hey, will you have a fundraiser for me . Will you host a house party for me . Yeah, yeah. Raising money. We asked mayor breed about her take concerning peskin possibly entering the race, and heres what she had to say. He just needs to say what hes going to do already, you know . And i dont think we should give it a lot of time and attention or life until he makes that decision to say that thats what hes going to do. Because right now its all speculation, its all buzz. People love the speculation and the buzz, but we still got work to do. So in your opinion, could peskin beat breit . I mean, theres a lot of people in this. Yes. Well, we have a thing called ranked Choice Voting in San Francisco, which is, you know, yes. If we started explaining it right now, wed be here till 10 00 in two hours. And but that increases the odds of it. London mayor breed mayor. London breed. There is shes feeling a little down. Yes. Because she is not doing well in the polls and speculation all that. Yes. Shes Walking Around and people are starting to talk openly about the possibility of her losing. If she was running strong. This we wouldnt be having this conversation. But shes not well. The conversation will continue. Uh, well leave it right here for now. Thank you. Phil, till tuesday. Yep waymo is on track to expand its driverless Ride Services throughout San Mateo County and los angeles state regulators approved waymos request today, kicking off the companys first big expansion. The approval is effective immediately, allowing them to operate from San Francisco, go all the way down to sunnyvale, covering 22 cities east of interstate 280 and much of la. All right, turning now to the weather. Youre looking at live shots from around the bay area. Yes, the east bay hills is showing you exactly that right now. Looks dark. Yeah. I mean, its fogged up out there, you know, especially up high. But, you know, the tahoe cam there. Right upper corn