News station. Youre watching kron. 4 news at now at 5, it is pouring outside. Slipped up roads. On this friday evening commute rain continuing to drench the bay area. We are taking a live look right now. At our walnut creek camera on highway 6. 80. As you can see, you can almost barely see the road heres a look at traffic across the bay area right now as well. That read and orange indicating heavy in moderate traffic spots. If you dont absolutely have to leave your house this evening. They want to hunker down. Thanks for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 5. Im noelle bellow bay and im grant lotus because of the rain and the winds. The golden gate ferry has canceled its services between San Francisco and timber on for the rest of the night. Thats been replaced with bus services and sales force park closed for the rest of the day conference. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here. Joining us now with a look at the weather center. Lawrence, youve been tracking this storm. You said it was going to get heavy and here it yeah, i think even picking up more so as we head throughout the night. So you said, yeah, hunker down and watch kron 4. Were going to tracking the storm system all night long. It is getting interesting outside now weve had those showers and some heavy downpours rolling through. Youre looking at the richard bridge right now and you can see all that rain on the road and more on the way as were going to see some thunderstorms likely to mix in here now. And you can see some of that really unstable air beginning to make its way into the stay. Then you start to see those thunderstorms popping up this afternoon. Youve got a band of moisture just off the coastline. That is not that far away. And that is where were going to start to see more of that heavy activity, dropin coming in along with this next cold front that just about to rotate into the bay area. So that being said tonight, going to be pretty wild out there. Weve got some heavy downpours already, especially along parts of the peninsula. But you see all around theres just a ton of rain. And thats why theyre problems out on the roads. As youre seeing a lot of areas, people seeing some spinouts. You see some very heavy rain and some hydroplaning is lot of polling out there on the roads right now all the way down into san jose, the east bay and boy, heavy storms now just moving into San Francisco, too. Well keep you updated all night long right here on kron. 4. Like we said, these are extremely dangerous conditions. Whiteout conditions, 10 plus feet of snow in some areas. These are not conditions that are passable by your average individual. So hunker down. If youre if youre in the snowy areas, if youre not a just cancel or postpone your plans, do not try to travel in these really dangerous conditions. The leaders of cal oes reminding folks to stay home and stay safe. The blizzard is blowing through the sierra tonight. It has made travel on freeways and side roads. Certainly almost impossible if not impossible. Right now, only cars with fourwheel drive with snow tires with chains, honor allowed across 80 at Donner Summit and highway 50 into south lake tahoe. Definitely dicey it that way. Kron fours rob nesbitt spoke with chp and caltrans about the roads joins us now in studio with more on. What they had to say, rob. Its a while, but theyre definitely sweater weather, right . Haha, good day for anyone trying. To go up to lake tahoe had a similar experience as yesterdays drivers, heavy snow and whiteout conditions has caught straying at cause a chain controls on most of the highways for the most part, though, the public is taking expert advice and staying home. Interstate 80 look more like a parking lot friday with heavy snow and high winds bringing traffic to a standstill. Chp officer in the truckee area. Chris patton says if you are stuck in traffic, chances are vehicle ahead of you needed help getting out of the snow thats really ramping up today. Weve had a closures on the been Holding Traffic a few times for several incidents that have happened on the freeway. Multiple spinouts chain controls in full effect as heavy winds caused whiteout conditions. No injuries reported to chp in large part because of caltrans having all hands on decketo clear the roads. Jeremy lender with caltrans says theres a noticeable difference of drivers staying off the roads on day 2 of the storm. Anytime youve got a lot of snow. Following a short period of time along with those gusty winds that creates now potential for any type of house are expected for the traveling public that not used to state. Road crews staying busy as well as local public works according to truckee mayor david polity. Were running a at fullcapacity 100 and so far so good. Roads are clear and people are able to get around if they need ski resorts, including palisades and alpine closed for the day because of blizzard conditions. Mayor polity also owns the retail stores, tahoe Mountain Sports and talk about in life. Not many customers during the blizzard, but outdoor enthusiasts are looking forward to the storm clearing and skiing to start. You know, its nice. Its beautiful. Its great to have the snow back again. Chp does not want anyone on the roads during the snowstorm. If they dont have to be for those who do, though, the advice from officer patton is take it slow, have fourwheel drive snow tires. Chains ready as well as food, water and blankets in case of an emergency reporting in studio. Im rob nesbitt kron. 4 news led best to stay away. Thank you, robin. Stay up to date with the storm here in the bay and in the series to scan this qr code, it will take you to our page on kron 4 dot com where you can keep current with conditions live radar road closures and power outages. Governor newsom has released a new plan to improve oakland city streets. The caltrans 10 point action plan outlines a strategy to support the city and improving Street Safety and beautification the plan highlights efforts to install security cameras, intensify, maintenance, address, encampment issues, host, local hiring events, conduct cleanups, increase litter reduction and focus on beautification projects. Todays announcement builds on the states 14. 3 Million Dollar project that will build 41 units for project homekey in downtown oakland and newsoms deployment of 120 chp officers to the city are tasked with helping Law Enforcement crackdown on crime. Meantime, stable deli in oakland is recovering tonight. It was burglarized and partially set on fire. Surveillance pictures from this morning show suspects breaking in. We spoke to the owner who is at his wits end. He says this has happened so many times. Hes lost count. This point, should they be surprised . Nothing left to steal . Weve begun taking everything home with us. We forgot to change box last night. We will make that mistake again. Or glory. And the fire come as the owner is facing a 10,000 access, a litter fee from the city. The fee is imposed on food businesses and used to pick up trash along the herbers. The owner has not paid the fee since 2021. The city reached out to him this week saying theyre willing to reduce the charges hes facing. A 4th suspect has been charged with murder in the killing of Oakland Police officer twan lay lay was shot and killed in late december while responding to a burglary near jack london square. So briab russell now joins march. Sanders marquese cooper and alan brown as the people charged with the killing russell was originally charged with 3 counts of burglary and entered a not guilty plea. Prosecutors believe it was sanders who pulled the trigger killing lay Alameda County supervisor. Or District Attorney pamela price says in part, quote, we will not stop until everyone who participated in his murder is held accountable and quote, the 4 defendants are scheduled for a preliminary hearing on monday. March 4th. More than a year after chief Leronne Armstrong was fired. The Oakland Police commission has sent a list of finalists to become the citys next top cop. Those were sent to the mayor earlier this week. However, the mayor is not happy with this hiring process, meaning the candidates who made the cut might not be considered further. Kron fours justine waldman. Joins us in studio to explain where things stand. The Oakland Police commissions police chief Search Ad Hoc Committee held a public form in the city council chambers. Asking priests cream questions from the community to those 4 candidates. But its not clear if those 4 candidates are the same names on that short list sent to the mayor today, new yorks assistant deputy mayor for public safety. Louis molina on the list there, along with former lubbock, texas police chief floyd mitchell, cincinnati, ohios assistant police chief lisa davis and former San Leandro Police chief abdul pridgen. They all had a chance to speak last night pitching their goals for the first 100 days and plans to build Community Trust and transparency. And i lead, by example, im a person of unimpeachable integrity. Strong principles and i always do the right honest. And im just and then this day in the importance of not always having a police first, a type of response, 2 issues related to public health. Well of the drivers that may be driving someone to be justice involved and how we can divert those populations to better resources. And i them away from the criminal justice system. I believe from a constitutional standpoint and a cultural standpoint, its just making sure that you said clear lines in the same of what will be tolerated but wont be tolerated. And you have a problem processes and policies or procedures in place to call up with that. You have to stay on top. What are expectations that process and procedures are per staff directly . And if theyre there handle on a daily basis. Absent from that meeting, the mayor who does have the final say in hiring of a chief, oakland mayor sheng thao says she skipped out on the meeting because she believes the process that the candidates are being put through does not work. Thao also says the Police Commission is keeping her from seeing all of the people who have applied only providing her with a list of selected candidates. So this Police Search committee for this chief says that their list of finalists was submitted to the mayor, but it did not say who was on the list so the mayor can now choose to interview those finalists or reject them. She already did that before. And that would require the Police Commission to provide yet another list of candidates to the mayor. In the newsroom. Im justine waldman. Kron. 4 news. Waymo has received the ok to expand its operations outside the city limits of San Francisco. The California PublicUtilities Commission has approved waymos planned expansion as far south sunnyvale and to parts of los angeles. The driverless taxi service had already received approval from the dmv. Various jurisdictions, including san mateo county, had opposed the expansion. They felt these decisions should be left up to local government and not to state agencies. A bill introduced by san jose state senator dave cortez. He would put those decisions back in the hands of local lawmakers. However, its unlikely the bill will be voted on before the fall. This does not mean waymo cars will be showing up at San FranciscoInternational Airport anytime soon, though, that would require a special permit and approval from the airport. Today Assembly Member phil ting announced more than 4 Million Dollars will be invested into a Japanese Language School in San Francisco. Ken moon got cool and it is 114 years old old school. It was created back then to teach the japanese language and culture and traditions too. Japanese kids of immigrants, the money will be used to revitalize the auditorium. The school was originally built after a law was passed by the San Francisco school of education that made it tougher children of japanese to set to attend Public Schools renovations here will begin within the next month. Still to come on kron, 4 news at 5 San Francisco reporting less homeless tense in this city. What mayor breed has to plus changes too. The cdcs isolation guidance for covid. 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You know, weve got those thunderstorms get underneath that. You see those downpours like that. That makes it so dangerous on the highways here. But up in the high country. And they shut down the road. They just shut down 80 right. And thats because of all that snow coming down and maybe 2 to 4 inches per hour. And the snow plows. They can not work fast enough incline village. You see the few print out there in the snow that is now falling down the lake level at lake level. They could get as much as 6 feet of snow by the time this whole storm system kind of winds down. The snow level has been throughout the day today. You can see now all around the lake tahoe area, the ski resorts kirkwood in bear valley. Theyre getting plenty of snow. In fact, some resorts already over a foot and a half in the last 24 hours. Theyre going to really get walt as we head throughout the weekend. Things are just getting going. A blizzard conditions expected throughout the weekend. That means not only are we going to see heavy snow, but were going to see very strong gusty winds in the high country that going through sunday. Maybe some of those gusts over 100 miles an hour, 6 to 10 feet. Plus, maybe as much as 12 feet across some of the higher peaks. And yeah, its going to just be dangerous up there no matter what. Theyre closer roads already. You dont want to get trapped there. If you plan to getting up the high country, i just hold on a few can until next week. Weve got blizzard warnings up there across much of the Sierra Nevada, but not just in the higher slopes way down about 2000 feet or so as really the snow levels continue to drop into the weekend may be down to about 1000 feet or so. In the meantime, this is just been updated. This is now an avalanche warning in the greater lake tahoe area. You know, you get those winds blowing with that heavy snow and you can see at some of those snow drifts starting to build up on some of the peaks. Well then afterwards you got these big bills of snow on top of the peaks and doesnt take much to cause an avalanche. So got to be careful of that throughout the weekend and probably the next week to a snow forecast model still painting a tremendous amount of snow to come. How about that . 48 feet across made the peaks. Of course we had this all up. I think maybe 10 to 12 feet of snow from the storm. Thank you as it lawrence was this is a live look now at i80 eastbound from truckee. We are getting word that there are. There is a portion of 80 that is closed down at this point. But as you can see, not many folks on the road, which is exactly what officials have been urging people to do to not draw hive again westbound traffic. The is now being turned around at the nevada state line. Eastbound traffic is being turned around at drum for bay. So even if you are thinking youre going to get up to the sierra, its not going to be possible now as they have closed down a portion of 80 this evening will, of course, continue to keep you updated on the conditions there. Yosemite National Park is closed for the weekend due to the severe snow storm heading the Sierra Nevada visitors were told to leave the park by midnight today and anyone thinking of going there over the weekend is advised to stay home up to a foot of snow could fall in yosemite valley. A winter storm warning does go into effect for that part of the park tomorrow morning through sunday morning. A blizzard warning already in place for the park outside yosemite valley. So we have all this rain and snow and then you have these catastrophic wildfires that are ripping across the texas panhandle right now at least 2 people have been killed. Homes are in many have been destroyed already by this massive fire at biggest fire in the history of texas, which is hard to believe at least 3, a different wildfires are burning across the state. Officials are reporting that there unfortunately is no end in sight. Many are fearing things could get worse this weekend with ferocious winds are forecasted to return to the area. The humidity levels are super low and the conditions are just right for this fire to rage. Other news tonight, the cdc changed some guidelines when it comes to covid19 and how to handle it. Theyre saying we can handle similar to the flu. Dan kerman reports. The centers for Disease Control says those who test positive for covid19 no longer have to isolate for 5 days. They say if you test positive, but your symptoms are mild in improving and youre feverfree for 24 hours. You can return to work or school, but some things are changing and whats not changing is that. Regardless of when youre positive, you need to conti