Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Now at 11 00, an accuweather alert. I havent seen it this high in years. Its really scary. A rapidly rising creek forces evacuation as the bay area deals with a day of downpours. We have seen some intense rain, strong winds and a slow evening commute home. Tonight, abc 7 news is where you live with live storm watch coverage. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. We have it all today, rain, wind, flooding, mudslides, downed trees plus too many car crashes to count. Tonight its not over yet. We have meteorologist sand sandia matallo. We have rainy conditions. Intensity is not as bad. We have it around the san mateo coast heading out towards skyline boulevard on the peninsula, san carlos, foster city, belmont area. Street level. Elm street youre seeing some wet roadways. Concord and pleasant and walnut creek. Light rain is steady and light around livermore and 580. We take a look at one other location, south bay from sarch at that klara to san jose. This was a 3 on our storm impact scale. It is verified as a 2. Downgraded it to a moderate storm. Still gusty over the hills. Remaining gusts to 40 on mount tam. Not as strong as earlier tonight. 11 00 tonight you see where the rain is as we head into your morning commute. W start to see some spotty showers developing around 4 00 to 5 00 a. M. Doesnt end there. Ill be back with the rest of the hourbyhour forecast. Dan, alma. In morin county a rapidly rising creek forces some evacuations today. Cornell bernard continues the coverage live from news 7, cornell. Alma and dan, somewhat back to normal after this creek gave everyone a very big scare. Coming dangerously close to flooding. It was no drill when the flood horns sounded alerting everyone in downtown to evacuate. Dan hillman moved to higher ground. I actually got an alert on my phone also as well as the sirens. What did you think of that . Things are going down. By 6 00 p. M. Police had streets blocked off. Downtown was deserted. The creek was at 12 feet just a foot away from jumping its banks. Its barely fitting under some of the buildings. I havent seen it this high. Check out this video from the ross valley Fire Departments web cam showing just how fast the creek rose from calm creek to raging water in just a matter of hours. If we get six inches of rain in 12 hours we know that the creek is going to come up. This is a significant amount of rain. Make sure all of the product that we had that was sitting down lower is up off the floor. Brad mckenzie at three ring cycles tried saving all of the merchandise that he could when he heard the flood horn and got this tweet from marin public works. We took it seriously and got everything up off the floor that we could. Put our flood gate doors up. Every business has these flood gates which locked tight in front of doors to keep water out with the help of sand bags. This time the creek gave downtown a break that caused a lot of drama. It was a very close call. Were all very relieved that the water stopped just in the nick of time. Thats for sure. The evacuation lifted earlier when the creek started to go down. The town manager said last time this area flooded was back in 2005. That could happen again because winter is far from over. Were live in san anselmo. Afc 7 news was in pembroke this evening as residents dealt with fastmoving flood waters. Abc 7 News ReporterCornell Bernard caught up with one homeowner who said the two creeks surrounding her home both overflowed sending a couple of inches of water right under her house. Has it ever been this bad . No. This is like two years ago we had flooding but not nothing like this. Reporter sarah brooks long said shell wait for the water to subside and get fans to dry it out. Thankfully the inside of her house is okay. Heres what it looks like in rural marin county. Flood waters submerged a car in unincorporated marin county. Nearby homeowners were briefly urged to evacuate. Theyre allowed back. Look at the photo of this tree blocking the road. The road west of big rock in san ra fell will be closed. Drivers in oakland had to deal with flooded roads. This is high street off of route 80. A foot of water covers the street. Lets take you now to the south bay as is so often the case. The Santa Cruz Mountains were hit hard causing big problems. Abc News Reporter katie marzia joins us. Reporter there have been multiple rock slides and mudslides forcing road closures. At one slide i asked the chp officer if i could interview him. He said he was sorry, he didnt have time. He had a long list of other locations to get to. On bear creek road at ralston ridge, the road will be closed overnight. The mudslide has been in the making for a while. Concrete barrier to try to keep the mud there. It failed. Big part of the hillside came down and washed really, really slippery mud onto the roadside. David maine got his truck stuck in the mud. When we found him he had been waiting for a tow truck. Damage to my ego, not to my truck. It had traffic back the up in both directions leaving drivers decide their next move. Joy haying began dished her car on the shoulder and walked home. Not the first time. Wont be the last. I live here and its been coming down a little bit more all day. Im not too surprised theyre not letting us pass. Didnt know what was around each bend. Rock slides like this caught everybody by surprise. Flooding was another hazard in the hills. We found standing water at big basin way. The Santa Cruz Mountains saw steady rain soaking highway 17 at the peak of the highway commute on top of everything else. Part of mountain living. Reporter the loma fire burn area was a danger. There was a Flash Flood Warning there. That meant the possibility of flash floods, debris flows. Katie marzullo. Even nba players werent immune to the traffic. Some members of the New York Knicks were stuck on embarcadero. To get them to oracle on time Police Escorted them along the road and onto the bridge. The bus arrived at the arena by 6 45, 45 minutes prior to tipoff. Not clear how many players were actually on board. A sign on San Franciscos embarcadero that says subject to flooding was true enough today. It was underwater as waves broke onto the embarcadero. People tried staying dry. Dogs were having the best time of all. The owner said the rain is her pets favorite type of weather. Flooding is a concern in Yosemite National park. Visitors were asked to leave by 5 00. There was a mandatory evacuation. There is concern about the river flooding the road. Now to get up to the minute forecasts where you live, be sure to download the abc 7 news app and enable the push alert. You can see doppler 7 and track rain. Live Storm Watch Team coverage continues at abc news. The rain working the east bay and the impact on drivers in the area right now. And the evening commute out of San Francisco comes to a painful crawl. Difficult drive facing people tonight. Plus, a crumbling crib side on the peninsula. They cant wait any longer to take action. Abc 7 news meteorologist, tracking rain. Right now live doppler 7 is tracking the remnants of the storm. Meteorologist sandra battell will be back. New at 11 00, a large tree came crashing down late tonight on a danville home all decorated for the holidays. It happened on bridgewater circle near old creek road. No one was injured. The Fire Department was unable to remove the tree tonight. Crews are expected back out again tomorrow to deal with that. Also new at 11 00, a small sinkhole has closed a lane of traffic near valley view drive. An area started to sink tonight. Pg e says crews were doing work on a pipeline and filled the hole with paving material. That material did not set because of all of the rain opening a hole. No word when that lane will reopen. Lets continue our storm watch coverage from San Francisco where its been a sloppy, slippery, dangerous night on the roads. It has. Abc 7 News Reporter lisa is live on the overpass along 280. Lisa. Reporter it has been a brutal night on the roads. It is wet, it is cold, it is windy. There have been several problems. In fact, weve faced several of our own tonight. It took us an hour to get out of San Francisco tonight. Everywhere we turned, gridlock. It wasnt much better once we made it on to 280. Here is one reason why, the westboro exit on 280 south shut down tonight after a tree fell on the off ramp. Cal trans crews rushed to clear the massive tree. The on ramp to southbound 35 from northbound highway 1 after a pine tree fell crushing part of the guardrail. A car wasnt able to avoid the tree and crashed into it. Were advising everybody to slow down because you never know whats going to be coming around the next corner. It has been pretty busy. A lot of trees are down. A lot of traffic collisions. Just the usual during rain season. Reporter the weather caused problems on city streets in south San Francisco. The traffic lights started flashing. Crews moved quickly from one emergency to another. When its raining its typical. We expect that. Reporter and while weve been here for the past hour or so weve seen plenty of activity on 280. Lots of police cars, lots of ambulances rushing by. Were not far from the chavez bridge which is prone to flooding. Live in San Francisco. Heres a live look at sfo where the weather caused the cancellation of 130 flights. Flights are delayed 1 to 4 hours. Real hassle. Visibility is the issue. Airport officials had to essentially flip the run ways backwards. The city of pacific a cant wait any longer. 310 esponade avenue. The building is hanging on the edge of an ever awaiting cliff. Today they said they cant keep waiting for the Property Owner to do something. It was windy in pacifica. Frosty and santa had a hard time standing upright and horizontal rain. Hang in there, guys. San pablo, greenwood drive flooded. The water went up past this womans ankles. Some drivers tried to get through and got stuck. Fortunately no one was trapped. Our abc 7 News Reporters have been out across the bay area covering the storm. Roy anthony tweeted this. A flooding in the park. Melissa harrington tweeted about the awful traffic on the way home. Matt kelly had this photo. You can do up to the minute weather forecast. Now an accuweather alert from abc news. The up to the minute forecasts will help you out. Download the abc news 7 app. The rain continues to fall. It is moderate in intensity around parts of the east bay, newark, Patterson Ranch road. Dont be surprised if you run into a downpour. If you are heading out on the roadways in the next couple of hours, lighter rain across el camino and in the south bay were seeing light bay around evergreen, allen rock as we take you down towards dell roy, san martine area, monterey boulevard. Highway 101. Morgan hill. It is also slick out there. Definitely the leftovers of the strong storm that pounded the bay area. It was a level three and as you take a look at the numerous reports of flooding and mudslides, debris flows, about 52 to be precise. You know that this storm verified it was a soaker and it definitely kicked up the winds. 40, 50mileanhour winds. 80 and 88 heading to the sierra. Lake level were talking about high elevation snow. Winter storm warning up. It remains in effect until tomorrow evening. 1 to 2 feet of snow expected. Expect white out conditions. Not a good idea to travel until that storm has passed. What did this storm do . This is quite impressive. Over half a foot of rain. Cantfield has picked up an inbe much. Concord 2. 5 inches. Moon bay and San Francisco over an inch of rain. Temperatures right now in the 40s and the 50s. A live look from our abc news exploratorium. This moisture, tomorrow morning youll have to look out nor ffo. Sunny and dry for the upcoming weekend. Category 3 storm is now a 2. Moderate strength storm. Been downgraded for tonight. Light to moderate. Gusty over the hills. Minor flooding concerns still not out of the question as the creeks continue to come up. So 11 00 tonight we have the rainfall in the east bay, San Francisco. As we head into tomorrow morning, spotty light showers so the storm impact scale will be lifted. Really at 4 00 a. M. It will be isolated at best. As we head into the latter part of the morning, 10 00 a. M. We see a little more activity beginning to develop around the peninsula. 11 00 a. M. As well. As we head into the afternoon hours the rainfall does diminish. Temperatures in the morning, upper 30s to 40s with the spotty showers. Definitely cold enough to where youll need to grab the extra layer. For the afternoon, dont get rid of the extra layer. Still cool. Temperatures in the low to mid 50s despite the fact youll be seeing plenty of sun to end your work week. A few showers for your friday morning. After that its dry. Winter like chill sets in saturday, sunday, monday mornings. Youre talking about temperatures that are going to be down to freezing and below for some of our inland valleys. Afternoon highs in the low to mid 50s. Definitely on the cool side. Monday the temperatures begin to come up. Youll notice, tuesday its about 60 degrees. Bay and inland only to see the temperatures come down again for the first day of winter which is wednesday. Slight chance of showers on thursday. Mike nicco will be here the shoes say always remember and have oakland strong on them. They also have the initials of each of the 36 people killed. Current plans to auction off north benefit of the families. Not a great night for the knicks in a number of ways. They got im sorry they got in a way. After driving in the rain, then they had warriors raining threes and dunks down on them. A night that abc 7 sports brought to you by river rocca seen know. Good evening, back at home after a 41 road trip. The warriors hosting the knicks. Carmelo anthony and rose showed up for a loss. Officer gutierrez returning from overseas surprises his family and a big hug from his son. Klay thompson alleyooped. Warriors 26 assists on 26 field goals in the first half. Mcghee jamming 26 seconds in the first. Ian clark to steal and then up the court to klay for an easy basket here. This game was never in doubt. Thompson goes for 25. Corner three. Splash. Up 14 at the half. Third quarter klay wide open. The knicks did not seem particularly interested in guarding anybody. Dramon to mcghee. Another alleyoop. 17 points in 16 minutes for mcghee. They had 36 baskets on 36 assists, play again. Warriors roll 10390. Maybe the lone bright spot of the game was our guys willingness to share. They really looked for each other. Thats a theme almost every night. I was happy with the effort tonight. It was a long road trip and its a hard game to win when you come back on a five game trip. We showed some great resiliency. Before the game they honored craig sager who lost his battle with leukemia. Steve kerr addressed the crowd. While we considered a moment of silence, we thought he would like a moment of joy instead. Id like all of you to join me in applause for a great man and a life well lived. Thank you. [ applause ] really a nice touch to have a moment of joy. Sager worked for Turner Sports for 30 years. Known for his colorful outfits. He battled leukemia since 2014 with so much courage. Was an icon respected and loved by so many. Craig sager was 65 years old. Rams seahawks, jared goff meeting richard sherman. Concussion protocol. Third quarter seahawks throwing from the 1. This time it works. Russell wilson to doug baldwin 173. Seattle runs a fake punt. John ryan, all kinds of space but then starts juggling the football for no more reason and takes a huge hit. Stick to punting. Look out get down. Seattle clinches the nfc west 243 the final winning despite the fluorescent green uniforms. Abc 7 sports brought to you by river rocca seen know. Winner of the