Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20170110 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20170110

Out your clothes for you. Heres a look at live doppler 7. Lets show you where some of the heavier rain is, antioch, buchanan road there, hill crest avenue, going to cross the delta and head up towards rio vista right there and you can see theres another batch of some yellows and oranges about to head into the victSanta Cruz Mountains and we have Jessica Castro on the way down there in case theres in more rock and mudslides and i think there will be. The rain picks up in intensity at noon. Throw some thunderstorms in there, why not. That means more intense localized rain and winds for 7 00. More on our watches and warnings next. Heres alex. That means another tough day on the roads and yesterday, just awful on highway 17. So, taking you back down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, right around vine hill road, thats where we had that significant land slide yesterday. That is still fully blocking the northbound side of the road, theyve split the southbound side. Basically you get one lane aech way but thats going to be a sig alert for a long time to come and another downpour here right around the bay bridge toll plaza. Check out those rooster tails. Also a high wind advisory so give yourself plenty of time this morning. The big threat this morning is in the north bay and Sonoma County, the rising Russian River has flooded homes, cars, and other property. The giant mudslide, 50 feet wide and two football fields long came crashing down beside the guerneville home there. That home is being red tagged because of fear that the giant redwoods nearby could fall on it. Some residents have been told to evacuate and debris flows in the area is still active. All morning you could hear the trees cracking. Some of the bigger trees fell and when the mud would push, it would get to a point where it would break so you could hear that and the rocks tumbling down. Their going to red tag it for a couple days and then see what theyre doing with it. Its hard to tell. Its all so soupy. The Russian River crested yesterday at 35 feet, flooding several low lying nakeds. A new video shows the nearby nee river flooding over the weekend. This was at the height of the storm sunday morning. The river is at about 17 feet. Thats 8 feet below flood stage. All this rain is flooding means students are getting another day off from school today, both the Harmony Union and Guerneville School districts have canceled classes at all of have canceled classes at all of their campuses for a heavy downpour in marin county this morning. This is what it looks like on northbound 101 in san rafael. The drivers in the city said theres a lot of ponding in the lanes between san rafael and mill valley. In the south bay, you can se it coming down this morning. We spotted several cars slowly driving through this intersection on highway 9 north santa cruz avenue. Chp says be sure to leave early and give yourself plenty of time to get where youre going. Also, slow down. Your car cant stop as fast or turn as accurately on wet pavement. Well, as alexis crews are cleaning up. He is recovering at home but the problems continue for drivers this morning. Jessica castro is live on 17 with the latest. Reporter good morning, matt and natasha. Certainly, dangerous situation here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We are making our way southbound on highway 17, and i want to tell you the situation that is going ton right now. Weve got rain coming down but take a look at the debris on the side of the roadway, fallen branches and a lot of mud out here and that is the fear that not just in that spot that we saw the mudslide yesterday, one of our own crews caught in that mudslide, so we want to show you some video from yesterday of what has part of highway 17 shut down, but i can tell you, as we are making our way southbound to that location and get you a better visual of what the situation is now, that highway 17 has these problem spots all along the way and the fear is that we can see another mudslide like we saw yesterday morning. Again, we are on highway 17 making our way down there to that spot that is now blocked off the northbound lanes are closed off, southbound lane has been converted into two directions. I just got off the phone with california Highway Patrol as we were making our way into the Santa Cruz Mountains and they told me this cleanup here will likely only happen somt tomorrow so that the northbound lanes on highway 17 through Santa Cruz Mountains will be blocked off today. You want to plan accordingly. We do see a lot of cars coming through this area as we make our way through the Santa Cruz Mountains. So, drivers are taking it slow. Thats the good news. We have been taking it very slow. We are going to continue heading southbound on highway 17 to get you a better visual of that problem spot where it is blocked off, but i can tell you that everything we have seen, we have seen some mud coming down on to the street as we made our way this morning, so its a pretty dangerous situation out here. We are being very cautious and taking it slow. Well have another report for you here shortly. Well, homeowner face as job of rebuilding after a large tree crushed part of their house in fair fax. Youre looking at the aftermath follow ago tree toppling on to a garage on scenic road. That also took out peej power lines. I didnt know what it was when i got up. I just, you know, we have that was a big storm. The wind was really blowing. Tfs a difficult road to get up. There were some access issues so we needed to make sure that the situation was safe. Yeah, thankfully, nobody was hurt. The storm is causing flight delays and cancellations at San Francisco international airport. Heres a live look from our sfo camera. We just checked with the duty manager at the airport. 12 flights have already been canceled. Six roifls and six departures, we are told delays and cancellations will most likely increase throughout the day. Public works will ask to declare a state of emergency after a pipeline ruptured causing a huge spill. The city is now asking people to cut back on their water use by 30 until monday. Heres abc7 News Reporter katie marzullo. Looking for some a few days of kind of white knuckling it. Reporter sundays storm deliver add double whammy. It churned up the San Lorenzo River to the point the water is unusable and it ruptured the main pipeline that serves as the backup plan. When these kind of conditions exist, we go on lock loamen and weve lost the connection between our lake and our treatment plant. So were about 30 down in terms of what we can produce. Reporter the city is calling it a shortterm, serious water shortage. Officials are asking people to cut back on water use, including running the dishwasher and doing laundry for a week. Not a problem for conservation locals. Try to do dishes with less water. I dont use a lot of water anyway. I do plan to cut my use by 30 because i have never stopped using my buckets in the shower anyway. Reporter the Water District discovered the break after an hourslong leak of 1500 gallons a minute. Its not on a major road, which is in part why it went undetected. But at the height of sundays storm, there were 33 roads closed in Santa Cruz County and theres more rain on the way. We expect to see some more slides and maybe slipouts that will occur over the next week or so. Reporter in santa cruz, katie marzullo. Well, despite all the damage these storms are causing, theyre adding hundreds of billions of gallons of water to california reservirs. Our Media Partners report that 350 billion gallons have poured into the states biggest reservoirs raising storage levels that we have not seen in years. Theres so much water, in fact, dam operators have been releasing some of it to reduce flood risk. You can keep tabs on storms with live doppler 7. This is on the abc7 news app. Be sure to enable push alerts. Lets talk about the Russian River at guerneville, 34. 6, so 2. 5 feet above flood stage but its going to go higher through tomorrow morning and into thursday, possibly cresting at about 37. 5 feet. When that happens, guerneville, brookside resort will begin to flood, well have more extensive flooding in parkers resort and northwide, lower redwood drive will start to flood and numerous residences and businesses are going to flood if not flooded already. Light to moderate rain over guerneville. Heavier areas just to the south of graten, right near the resorts. And this is all sliding off to the east. You can see it gets a little more intense around the aired because the radar is sitting in some of the most intense rain at 3500 feet. Flash flooding, which means it happens in an instant, you have to take immediate action, because rapid rises in our creeks and streams and rocks and mudslides, everywhere and he want the bay shore line and then wind damage is possibility from noon today to midnight with gusts 50 in the lower levels to 65 in the higher levels and were going to have coastal flooding and bay shore flooding because of king tides today all the way through thursday. Look at these rainfall estimates. 3 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains, nearly 1 inch to 2 inches for the rest of us and thats all going to fall now through the end of the day. Thats why were going to have more issues. In fact, traveling a bear this morning. Alexis . Not going to be a fun commute once again so taking a look at our traffic maps, 23 incidents on the boards. Two problems, westbound highway 24, thats the twocar krark in the right lane. The second one, past highway 13 interchange, near broadway and that was a solo vehicle crash that hit the Center Divide. That is now on fire. Im starting to see some delays building there as you get through the tunnel and across highway 13 so that ones filling in. Ill have an update coming up. New crash, southbound 880, thats involving two vehicles, blocking the far right lane right now. Theyre trying to get that pushed out of the roadway and wee briefly saw this pop up. Southbound 17, we hear that we possibly had another mudslide just some rocks and dirt possibly but then it disappeared so im hoping that just means it was a minor issue that and they already have it cleared. Well take a look at drive times coming up. Coming up, a bizarre kidnapping and bank robbery in florida, how people across the country watched as it went down. And parting words, what president obama intends to say in his final address to the nation. Its 5 12 in the morning and this is abc7 news now. A live look at a wet bay bridge glowing in the darkness. Glowing in the darkness. St welcome back. Its 5 14 in the morning and look at the wet roadway, the approach to the richmondsan rafael toll plaza, tracking a number 2 on our storm impact scale today and remember if you take any videos or photo of the weather where you live, we want to see it. Post it with the abc7now and you can see it right here on abc7 mornings. Turning now to a deadly officerinvolved shooting in san jose. It has been ruled lawful. In 2015, san jose officers shot and killed murder suspect matthew castillo. Prosecutors say he was involved in the shooting death of christopher wren. Three days later, officers tracked down castillo. Officers say he pulled out a loaded handgun and two officers then opened fire. When castillo was on the ground, he reportedly still tried pointing the gun at officers. Police then shot him again, killing him. The 26page report concluded that police acted within the law to protect themselves. Along to gmas first look now, a man hunt underway in florida for the suspect in the murder of an Orlando Police officer. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, a massive man hunt. Police are searching for they say gunned down an orlando officer. We are going to bring this dirt bag to justice. Debra clayton was on duty outside this walmart when a shopper alerted her that a wanted murder suspect was in the store. He had a security vest on and everything and i came out, im walking down the side, by the officer, i heard her hel him to stop or whatever. He shot her and he took off running. Officer shot. Reporter Sergeant Clayton died at the hospital. I can tell you that it doesnt matter where he is, we will track him down to the ends of the earth, trust me on that. Reporter well have the latest on the search for her killer coming up at 7 00 a. M. Abc news new york. A suspected bank robber is accused of kidnapping an uber driver, claiming to have a bomb, and giving cash away. Some of this was captured on facebook live. It all started inside this bank in miami yesterday. The robbery suspect is in the suit. The stream ends and starts again inside a car. The alleged hostage filming as an uber driver and exmarine. Suspect shows off his money and investigators believe he then started handing out cash to people on the streets. That suspect then called to turn himself in but said he had a bomb. The area was cleared. He was arrested, and another man was also detained. Well, powerful earthquake hit off the coast of the southern philippines. Want to show you where the epicenter of the magnitude 7. 2 quake is. This happened around 10 00 last night in selibes. But seismologists say this was too deep to cause damage. This is part of the ring of fire where earthquake activity is common. A homeowner is facing a massive repair job after crashing her suv through her house and into her backyard pool. Heres a look at the home in north carolina. The driver was returning to her home sunday when she lost control. Police believe she accidentally hit the gas instead of brake as she pulled into the barrage garage. The suv plowed through the garage wall, landed until the pool. She is okay. What a mess. It looks cold there. Im sure the icy conditions didnt help out in that case. There are some parts of the carolinas that have been below freezing for almost three days and thats unusual for them. For us, three days of rain, why not add a couple more. We dont need it because of the damage its going to cause but it is nice to see there is a positive impact in our reservoirs and the fact that our snow pack is now about 126 of average. Moderate to heavy rain or our storm impact scale. Our exclusive storm impact scale, evening downpours, gusty southerly winds. This is not an ordinary category 2 storm because of what happened sunday. The damage could be greater than what we normally expect. All right, our best radar returns, golf links road, you can see lake road near san leonardo and this is going to head to san ramon and danville. Moderate to heavy downpours around bolder creek right now. And that is sliding over to the summit on 17 and you can see its got a tail on it. And that means its going to be a round about a half hour to 45 minutes so well keep an eye on that and Jessica Castro whos down there to see if theres any more mudslides this morning. 6 00, you can see the best of the yellows moving east by 8 00, theres a few spotty downpours around in San Francisco and across the richmondsan rafael bridge and then up north and notice the yellows get more persuasive as we head towards the lunch hour. And then, look at this. Oranges and reds start to show up during the evening commute and thats when we could have thunderstorms with brief, heavy downpours, more flooding and even faster winds during the evening hours. So for the morning commute, standing water, then it will be wet. So our early commuters are going to have the toughest time. During the evening rush, gusty winds, low lying flooding and hydroplaning. Todays storm impact scale is a 2. Well have storms thursday and in the evening it starts to dry out. Taking a look at our traffic situation, not good. We now have a sig alert for this highway 24 crash so its westbound just past 13 near broadway, vehicle lost control, hit the Center Divide and then it caught fire so that thing was fully engulfed for a few minutes, fire crews are there but the three left lanes are blocked so that is backed up to the kald tunnel. Walnut creek, you can expect delays and chp just issued that sig alert. You can see heavy rain. We had a vehicle hydroplane across all lanes. They had to stop traffic there but cleared it to the parking lot. So all lanes are back open and it is soggy. 101 at 880. Drops on the lens there. Quick check of drive times. Southbound 680, 6 minutes. 20 minutes, westbound 24, that should be in the yellow. And westbound 580, you are up to 39 minutes. In just ten short days, president barack obama will be leaving the white house. And tonight, hell be back home in chicago delivering his final public speech as president. Abc chicagos diane has more on whats being planned. Reporter the president will thank his many supporters and talk about his success over the last weigeight years and hes d it at a place where his political career started in chicago. President obama says his speech will be a chance to say sthaung and offer thoughts on where we should go from here. Thousands of people lined up in the bitter cold over the weekend to get free tickets. Some of those tickets ended up on ebay and craigslist, some lists for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Its a chance to see history right here in the president s adopted hometown. Were told he was still tweaking his speech late last night and will address his thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead. I hope he speaks to some of those challenges that we face because thats something all americans should care about, whatever their political affiliation. Reporter were told the decision to return to chicago for his speech was important to the president who believes chicago is the place where his career and service began. We are expecting thousands of people to start lining up here at Mccormick Place very early to make sure they get a good seat to watch the farewell speech. Abc news chicago. And abc news will air president Barack Obamas farewell address starting at 6 00 p. M. And abc7 news will begin immediately afterwards at 6 30. 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