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KGO ABC7 News 400PM December 3, 2014

About 400 in all. One of those crashes came in lafayette. A driver slid off the road right into a traffic signal and that backed up traffic. In marin, the park and ride lot is flooded over not only because of the rain but also due to high tide. Its more than half a foot deep in some spots. Lets take a live look outside from the emeryville camera. You can see dark, stormy clouds remain out there. Spencer christian live outside with todays rain totals and also a look at live doppler 7 hd. Its raining lightly right now here where we are up on the roof at abc 7. Lets take a look at live doppler 7 hd. I will show you whats going on around the entire area. As you can see, weve got light to moderate rainfall over the Santa Cruz Mountains and parts of the south bay. Some in the east bay as well. Its up in the north bay where the most intense activity is occurring. Right now, a cluster of thunderstorms just in the last half hour or so moved onshore on the northern Sonoma County coastline and beyond, moving inland just east and south of sea ranch. Meanwhile, over in the area of napa, fairfield, out towards rio vista, we have a trail of light to moderate rainfall and scattered across the Santa Cruz Mountains and into the south bay, mainly light to moderate rain with some pockets of locally heavy rain occurring. Once again, theres that little bit of a break you referred to. Were not getting a complete break from wet weather but a break from the waves of intense and heavy downpours. Rainfall totals from the last 24 hours, quite impressive and quite uniform across the bay area. San francisco, nearly an inch and a half, 1. 45 inches of rain the last 24 hours. This is the greatest calendar day rainfall total in San Francisco since march 14th of 2012. Nearly three years. Redwood city just under two inches. Over an inch and a half at mill valley and more on the way. Well have some more heavy rain developing later in the evening, possibly more thunderstorms. I will give you a look at whats coming in the days ahead in just a few minutes. Spencer, thank you. We do have Live Team Coverage of the storm around the bay area. Lets begin with abc 7 News Reporter david louie live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. David . Reporter i can confirm what spencer just reported. It is raining moderately here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Todays storm did not trigger any mud slides but it did trigger small rock slides and a few power outages. The big concern is the next storm thats coming that could pose a greater risk, especially as the soil gets more saturated. The rain was so heavy at times it overwhelmed the downspout feeding water from the roof of a store. But the bursts of rain were followed by lighter showers and sometimes even breaks. So the Santa Cruz Mountains didnt experience any mud slides or flooding. Even in the San Lorenzo River seemed rather tame as it passed by the town. By the time all the storms make their way through the mountains, the total rainfall should be about six inches, nearly double how much rain has fallen here since october. But this small rock slide reminded people more serious slides could be coming. Three years ago, a major slide blocked nelson road in scotts valley, cutting off about 33 families from their homes. We have all wondered what they were going to do about the hillside that came down. Once it gets real wet it will want to keep coming. Apparently it stayed up there for many years. Reporter work on a new road finally started in september but much of the original slide will remain in place to prevent further movement. For others, especially children, its time to get reacquainted with rain. Have they forgotten what rain is about . Yes. Yep. Reporter no jumping they are starting to remember. Oh, yeah, rain reporter thats a good thing. Its great. Yes. Reporter kids do have a lot of fun in the rain. Mountain residents maintain they are prepared for whatever Mother Nature doles out this week and of course, we are all concerned about the mud slides. The residents say they have plenty of food and an abundance of patience. Live in scotts valley, david louie, abc 7 news. Sounds like they are prepared. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman continues our storm watch coverage live in san rafael. Wayne . Reporter actually, we have moved from san rafael, now we are in san anselmo. Where else would we be but in front of the much maligned, often unfairly maligned San Anselmo Creek which is doing its job right now, moving the water to the coastal hills, into the bay down below. Its been very uneventful for the most part here in marin county today. But there have been some exceptions. Lets begin in san rafael, where at 12 30 this morning, laura and mike collins thought they felt an earthquake. A few hours later, in the light, they discovered the source of all that shaking. One coastal oak. I think oh, no. Reporter oh, yes. And the folks at tree masters warn we will have more of this ahead as winter wears on. Did you expect this to happen today . Yeah. We were geared up ready for some mayhem. Reporter is it over . No. Big ones coming tomorrow. Reporter at the park and ride in mill valley, big ones come for eight more days. This is what happens when rains and tides especially converge in a lot owned by the state, run by cal trans, patrolled by the chp, served by the Golden Gate Bridge transportation district and sworn at regularly by mill valley residents. Get the picture . Its a regular flood caught in bureaucratic cracks. Im sure theres a lot of ideas to fix it but its probably low on the list. Reporter but water, thats been high on everyones list since the drought begin. Lets finish at Cascade Falls in mill valley which hasnt flowed like this since last year. Even then, it didnt particularly impress. Today, it did. Take a moment to savor this. While were live, lets take another moment to favor the creek which hasnt run like this in quite awhile either. If youre worried or concerned about rainfall totals, we are told right now in marin county, reservoirs are at 94 of where they would be this time of year, thats roughly 65 of capacity. So we still have a ways to go but its a good jump on filling up the reservoirs. Wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Thank you so much, wayne. In San Francisco, a huge cypress tree came crashing down this morning. It uprooted at geary and presidio. A public works crew spent the day chopping up the massive tree. Its one of about 15 trees or large limbs that have come down since the rain started last night. Any time theres rain, its busy, especially when its early rain to the season. The tree roots are just getting loose and can come down. Also, a lot of leaves on the trees right now, so water accumulates and makes the weight heavier and that can bring a limb or tree down as well. At least two cars were damaged today. A limb from a ficus tree snapped. No one was hurt. San franciscos Cable Car Service was suspended all morning because of the wet weather. Muni crews had to clear mud and debris off the tracks. The cable cars started running again around 1 45 this afternoon. The powell mason line stayed closed a little bit longer because a tree fell across the line at powell and bush. Muni says it takes extra care because the cable cars systems are about 100 years old. Commuters faced an epic backup because of flooding in San Francisco. The intense rain caused water to flood lanes of southbound highway 101 near paul avenue. Traffic could only pass in the right lane. That caused bumper to bumper traffic that extended all along the bridge and well past the maze into highway 24. The backup lasted until well past noon, when cal trans crews were finally able to unclog drains overwhelmed by the rain. Continuing the team coverage, abc 7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana live in emeryville with a look at conditions there in the east bay. Reporter well, the rains this morning caused those big issues for those commuters in the east bay because freeway traffic basically slowed to a crawl in part because of that flooding. In the city, some reports, the commute from the east bay into downtown San Francisco lasted more than an hour and a half. The steady rains made for a slow and soggy commute. East bay traffic heading into San Francisco was backed up for most of the day, causing significant delays. In berkeley, some storm drains were overwhelmed by the combination of leaves and rain causing them to back up. Power did go out for an hour and a half in the area around Fourth Street and delaware in berkeley. But the staff over at bettys diner jumped into action to make sure people who needed to warm up from the rain had some place to go. We have all these lamps and we have all these Power Supplies and so we stay open and we end up feeding the street. Reporter even with no power, cooks kept humming along cooking up homestyle potatoes and flapjacks. There were a whole bunch of guys in line with aprons on from the other restaurants who couldnt work and needed coffee and muffins and things like that. Reporter wind did kick up around midday but like the rain it was nothing too serious. Its nice, not too much, not torrential, not causing floods. Its just great. Im sure there will be trees down but you know. Reporter Alameda County public works says there were some branches that snapped off trees but they had no calls of whole trees coming down or reports of major damage. There was a pretty good break in the rain for the last couple of hours but right now, its starting to sprinkle again. Everyone that we talked to this afternoon said they are hoping for more rain. Live in emeryville, im Sergio Quintana, abc 7 news. If thats what theyre hoping for, they are going to get it. Its coming. If youre traveling today, or picking somebody up from the airport, call ahead. We have a live look right now at San Francisco international airport. Officials say inbound flights are delayed an average of two hours and 45 minutes. Earlier in the day it was about four hours. A total of 137 flights have been canceled there today. Meanwhile, in san jose, delays are about 25 minutes for departing flights. Flights were canceled this morning because of rain there. In oakland, all flights are on schedule. The morning downpour caused the tunnel to flood under the palo alto station. This picture was taken by todd valentine. Thank you, todd. Lets get a check of the roads with leyla gulen. Reporter im happy to report that today is actually much better than it was this morning in terms of our commute home again. We have about 35 incidents that are currently running and earlier today, we had about 100 incidents, most of those accidents. We do have a couple of accidents, many of them solo spinouts. We also have flooding and that is quite the risk this afternoon. As rain is expected to increase once again, be careful of certain areas. We have flooding near the k rails as you make your drive into antioch. As we drop farther to the south, as we take a look at westbound 580, greenville road, another area of pretty significant flooding. This area of green is indicating where rain could be affecting your commute. As we take it to our live cameras, this is walnut creek. Northbound side of drive 680 coming away from highway 24 to highway 4 going to take approximately 15 minutes. Nothing out of the ordinary. As we take a look at the Golden Gate Bridge, the drive out of the city actually moving along fairly decently. Now we are starting to see cloud cover increasing once again so the rain starting to sprinkle and so be careful out there as you head back home again. Ama, larry, over to you. In southern california, a mandatory Evacuation Order is now in effect for neighborhoods in camarillo springs, 50 miles north of l. A. Heavy rain is raising concern about mud slides in that community where hillsides burned more than a year ago. The same concern also in place in Silverado Canyon in orange county. Officials issued a voluntary evacuation notice for 60 homes there near an area that also burned over the summer and has been the site of previous mud slides. The storm system has been dumping snow in the sierra. Take a look at this. Its a live picture from the heavenly mountain camera. No tally yet on how much snow they got today but another 12 to 18 inches is expected to fall above 7,000 feet tonight through thursday. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, the effort to identify three suspects in the beating death of a homeless man. San Francisco Police say its one of the worst cases they have ever seen. Also, a bizarre sight on the Golden Gate Bridge. We will explain how this car got here and how crews got it out. New at 4 30, whats being blamed for the power failure that caused the lights to go out today in a major city in the midwest. Im Spencer Christian. As we can see on live doppler 7 hd, light to moderate rain continues to fall over much of the bay area with thunderstorms up north and more waves to follow. I will show you where we stand right now in terms of percentage of rainfall, of normal rainfall for the season to date. Its about getting to the finish line. In life, its how you get there that matters most. Like when i found out i had a blood clot in my leg. 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Police are not releasing video thats even more graphic of the beating. I have 25 years in. This is a really awful attack, probably one of the worst i have ever seen. I think all of us who were investigating this case were personally affected by what we saw. Investigators say the three men may have taken muni or b. A. R. T. To attend an event in the area. The victim, a 67yearold, was alive after the attack but died before morning. Really bizarre sight for commuters on the Golden Gate Bridge this morning. Traffic had to be stopped briefly in both directions when a large crane was brought in to move a stuck car. The driver was using the pedestrian walkway as a traffic lane, or trying to drive through it, and got wedged in tight into a really tight spot. Abc 7 News Reporter nick smith has the story. When i heard about this i definitely had to make a few calls and confirm that i was actually reading it correctly. Reporter what he heard was correct, but seeing is believing. Look. The driver of this blue mustang wedged his car on the Golden Gate Bridge sidewalk after crashing through the area marked for pedestrians. This individual went over metal pylons, squeezed through very tight areas. Reporter and ended up here stuck between a fence and, well, a hard place. To any normal person it would be obvious that you are driving somewhere youre not supposed to. Reporter but theres nothing normal about what happened. The officer says it all went down after 5 00 p. M. Chp received a report a car headed south on 101 had entered the pedestrian onramp speeding. After he finally got far enough, he came to a narrowing in the sidewalk where the vehicle became wedged. When that collision occurred it appeared the airbags were deployed. Reporter they identified the driver at 22yearold daniel soto and arrested him for dui. He wasnt seriously injured but his car versus sidewalk versus bridge has created a problem never seen by bridge workers. Its good that the Golden Gate Bridge crew likes puzzles because they got a challenge this morning. Reporter officials were stuck on how to remove a car too big to fit the way it came in. Crews have to figure out if they are getting a crane and picking it up or if they are going to take part of trailing down. Whatever way it happens, we will likely be blocking off one to two lanes of traffic. Reporter eventually doing just that. Stopping traffic in both directions and lifting the car up and over. We have learned that the crash was caught on bridge security cameras. They are not sharing it with t

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