Overnight. Live to benicia. A local state of emergency was declared because storm. Heavy rain and high tide create flooding causing roads to close. A live look from guerneville. The Russian River could rise two feet bringing it to major flooding stage. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Im laura garciacannon. We are tracking some scattered showers moving through the bay area. And at times we will pockets of heavy rain moving through and also a little bit more of a break as well. As we get a look at the radar now as you head out the door, quite a bit of rain streaming through. This is behind that main weather system that moved through yesterday. We will still have at times downpours that could make the standing water return to the roadways. Theres rain falling there. We check in with mike. Alameda county, the advisory for flooding last night. It continues. All rain coming down. The wet roadways. The green shows most of the freeways move well. Highway 17 with that tree down. The northbound side is blocking both directions of flowing. Look at all the slowing for both directions. There will be delays if that is your drive. Be patient. Allow extra time. It is is not really an alternate. Highway 84 closed between 680 and mission boulevard. The good news for the rails at least is the h train and the first one was cammed. The rest of them are allowed to come through the area. It sounds like those tracks are allowed to clear. The roadway is closed to highway 84. Today in the bay kris sanchez in the area where the mudslides close the roads. You can see where miles canyon shut down highway 84 where mission boulevard. The big problem is a quarter mile east of here. Mud still on the roadway. Niles creek along the side of the road. One suv got tangled by pretty big branches. Fremont police had to rescue people. Niles canyon is closed. Train one was cammed. Three is questionable. This area is susceptible to slides. Caltrans crews arrived here about 4 45. They hope to have it reopened by 8 00. Kris, thank you. Out to benicia. High tide just after midnight triggered this flooding and road closures. We have debris on the road as well. Crews overnight closed at least 10 roads and intersections. Now to a muddy mess in downtown martinez. The waters from alhambra rushed roads. More in the south bay near the reservoir reached capacity yesterday and is now spilling into the creek. The onslaught of rain triggered a flash flood alert and closed the trail parts of which were under three feet of water. Just a warning for people to Pay Attention to the creek levels. Stay away from the areas most importantly. The last time it was full capacity was in 2011 before the drought. A man rescued from floodwaters last night. The Russian River continues to raise its flood stage this morning. Cheryl hurd heard that man screaming for help. He was trapped by floodwaters. Big waves at mission yesterday. This is from marco colon. Some of our best eyes and ears are you, our viewers. You have been so great sending us amazing pictures and video like this picture from Patrick White showing the San Pablo Bay cresting in vallejo. When you see news happening, post your pictures and videos to our facebook page. Check the forecast right now. More rain expected today. Theres some clearing in the horizon. A few days off now. They will be clearing. But we have had so much rain the past few days. Heres a look at how much some spots have measured. Napa, five inches of rain. Look at the santa cruz mountains. 8 to 15 inches of rain. Even in san jose, you have had two inches of rain. San francisco and oakland, three inches there. And san rafael, 11 inches. So is its just been a very high amount of water. And its still coming down in parts of the bay area. The rain may get a little heavier. We are seeing it over the peninsula. It will move over the east bay into fremont. We will keep an eye on this. Rising along the coastline. Thats coming up. Tracking whats happening for some of those road closures and mudslides. I have better news for one of the road closures. La honda Road Accident has just cleared from the area. It wasnt a major commute route. Highway 17 is flowing slowly. Keep that in mind. Traffic control around vine hill today. Look how light and easy the sensors are showing. Thats not the case when you look at the live shot. Water continues to fall. More coming into this area. The bay bridge, looking over there. We have a backup here. No drama the east freeway. You do have a lot of company. The slick roadways, even though its not raining, will mean slicker conditions. The controversial urban shield controversy. Well tell you about the steps county leaders are taking to calm the nerves of those who believe it leads to the militarization of police. A live look at emeryville and the bay bridge there. Its going to be a tough one. Youre watching today in the bay. Good wednesday morning. The time is 6 11. We continue our microclimate alert as rain moves through the bay area. We try to recover from the heavy rain we have had the past couple of days. Rain here and of in the see is air ra. Blizzard warnings and a lot of heavy snow with road closures. If youre heading to squaw valley, alpine meadows, it may take you a long time to get there. Fresh powder. Weather conditions will be improving into the weekend. The microclimate forecast coming up. Over here we have highway 84 closed through niles canyon. No major delays for the upper east bay. Mike, police say this man caused terrifying he moments for an east bay mother. He allegedly stole her car with a 4yearold inside. This man, 44 years old, now facing kidnapping charges. The mother is dropping the child off in san leandro and left the car running with the 4yearold inside they found the car abandoned with the child inside. A recent stream of home burglaries is prompting a Community Meeting in menlo park. It take place 6 30 tonight at Laurel School on elliott drive. The police chief will be there. According to the almanac, 12 of the 15 homes burglarized in the last year in menlo park were all in the willows. That was september through december. A board of supervisors approved 9 million in funding for the program but unlikely the money will be youve as intended. They planned to use fund from a real estate transfer tax the. The mayor released the budget plan month and proposed spending 4 million to go to the program the next two fiscal years. The urban shield Training Program can continue in Alameda County despite several activists groups. The board of supervisors voted unanimously to keep funding. 100 people voiced their concerns yesterday. The event increases the militarization of Law Enforcement officers. Board members say they shared those concerns. They believe there were enough safeguards in place to prevent major issues. It will address the communitys concerns about urban shield. In business and tech news, awaiting Donald TrumpsNews Conference later this month. It seems is like he is probably going to focus more on russia and conflicts of interest after very strange reports yesterday and this morning. Markets may be showing jitters. The dollar had been rising on hopes the new administration would boost the economy. The nasdaq rose 20. Volkswagen just reached a tent active settlement with the Justice Department over the emissions cheating scandal. They paid a 4. 3 billion fine and face oversight from an independent monitor the next three years. Volkswagen set aside 19 billion to pay for the scandal. Global supplies of farmed salmon fell. There had been an outbreak of parasites and deadly algae. It will force stores and restaurants to pass the cost on to you or make the fish smaller or use cod. Parts of lake tahoe their 10 feet of snow after this latest storm. This is video from heavenly. Were told the wind at the top of the mountain this week have reached speeds of 100 miles per hour. Blizzardlike conditions closed many ski resorts. And a high avalanche warning will remain in effect at least through today. If youre headed to tahoe, be careful. Sunny skies will prevail. Assuming the roads open. I dont know how youre going to get there. It will be treacherous. As we look at whats happening out now, our temperatures are in the low 50s. Milder weather now. In the north bay, down to 48 degrees. And at times rain still falling. You can see that Golden Gate Bridge camera. We have yellows and reds indicating heavier rain. Just a few spots we will see throughout the morning. Redwood city, 101, dunbar ton bridge, rain falling there. Farther east around union city, some rain falling near whipple road, moving east of 238. Still tracking rain moving in. Coastal flood advisory in effect as we will see the water levels coming up near the coast and the inner bay shortly before noon but reaching the peak right about 10 00 this morning. We will have also flood warnings in effect for the Russian River and the napa river downtown area. The napa river has already crested and still be above the flood stage until early afternoon. The guerneville, Russian River there, we will see water levels above flood stage early tomorrow morning. Some additional rainfall possible throughout this afternoon, into the evening. But there will be many more breaks in between. More hit or miss showers we will see through the the day. Make sure youre compared. Keep your umbrella handy. There may be wet roads as we try to get a chance to try out. There still may be showers moving through. Lingering showers and then dryer conditions as we go through the day. The estimated rain for the next several rounds of light rain moving in could bring an additional half an inch for the south bay. Temperaturewise, we will see cooler air moving behind the system for San Francisco highs in the low 50s. Inland areas, more of the same. Warming up as we head into the weekend. Mike tracking some of the road closures and also whats happening on the rails. Thats right, kari. The weather is calming down. The rain still coming down from redwood city from 92 to 84. Easy flow of traffic except for highway 17 around vineville. Thats the issue for the south bay. The tree is blocking the northbound side. That will continue until they can clear. Here highway 84 continues that closure. Again, we have that mud covering the highway. The track has been cleared. 5 and 7 trains will be coming in shortly, one after the other. Interstate 680 through pleasanton. Only niles canyon has the closure. Soupy conditions north of 92. Golden gate bridge shows theres still rain on our lens. There may be issues for visibility as the sun comes up. Thank you, mike. There might be changes to the monopoly game. Plus, nbc bay area responds. The airline checked his carryon bag against his will and then the stuff inside is damaged. Im consumer investigator chris qaa mora. Nbc bay area responds. Save you money but how much you save depends on welcome back. Raising your deductible on your Auto Insurance could save you money. But how much depends where you live. Drivers in california can save 10. 9 by increasing their deductible from 500 to 1,000. You can save as much as 15 by raising it from 500 to 2,000. Changes are coming to the iconic monopoly board game. Hasbro is letting you vote on the next tokens that will be used. There are 64 tokens in the running. None are safe. Voting runs through january 31st. They plan to announce the results on world monopoly day. It is is march 19th. The only one i didnt like was the iron. 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The unusual circumstances to declare a local state of emergency. The flooding continues around parts of guerneville as the levels continue to rise. How the county is staying prepared. Its beautiful. Was it a hard place to get to . laughs it wasnt too bad. With the chase mobile app, jimmy chin can master depositing his hard earned checks in a snap. Easy to use Chase Technology for whatever youre trying to master. The bay area. Scott boxes and taking a live look outside a live look at our radar and another round of rain hitting our radar. Bridging all were getting wet. It will be a tough commute. The dryout is coming by the weekend. Team coverage. Monitoring the damage left behind. Kari hall and mike inouye. We still see some of the rain moving in as you head out for the commute. Still slick spots on the roadways also a lot going on. Well check in with mike. We see some of the light rain moving through. Showers moving through San Francisco and a little bit of heavier rain moving through palo alto, menlo park. We have a coastal flood advisory. Coming up. How much flooding we can see and how much additional rain is in the forecast. Mike is tracking rain, floods, and a tree. We will take them in opposite order. Nowhere on the santa cruz side. Thats where the traffic is flowing. Again, traffic droll. Highway 84, closure here because of mud. They have been approved to come through. That will be okay. 680, 880, light volume there. Thats pretty good news as you travel the rest of the bay. The conditions are very slow off the toll plaza. Back to you. Thank you very much. 6 32. We continue to follow breaking news near holster this morning where water rescues are going on right now in san benino county. We understand more than 20 people have already been rescued from their home. Massive flooding has taken over the neighborhood. More than two teeth feet of water in some places. More homes need to be rescued. Well bring you a live report. We have Team Coverage of the storm and the damage left behind as well. A local state of emergency overnight because of flooding and high tide. What are the conditions like now, bob . Reporter well, some roads have been shut down. You can see the water behind us. It is already starting to recede. A Police Officer tells us at one point this water was three to four feet team. You can see the car in the middle of the road. It doesnt have any power. That was a car that installed trying to the get through this water sometime overnight or yesterday. The driver gave up. You can see the headlights coming at us. It has since reopened. The water is receding slowly. It tells us that storm drains had been overwhelmed. In our drive around town, checking out some of the other roads that were shut down, the waters did recede. It was so overwhelmed the city couldnt keep up. They were trying to drain some of it. Itted up going over the spillway. They declared high tide at 1 00 a. M. Ben nearby that does have a waterfront. There was concern of flooding there. We didnt see any major impact. Bob redell, today in the bay. Bob, thanks. A close eye on the Russian River in guerneville. Pete suratos joins us live. You have been all week long. You could see flooding today, though. Thats correct. We could see flooding today. The Russian River could hit 38 feet. They have been told to evacuate. I want to show you where we were at. We were just here yesterday. The levels are affecting this area. The water is about halfway up this building here. We do know as far as the river levels go, 46 feet. It is is expected to rise two more feet later on today. As a result, we have had evacuations along the Russian River for folks who live in those areas. We have seen the past couple days to and from their destinations. In the event of a water rescue, make sure theyre in the right spot. Here is the Sheriffs Department explaining how that is going to work. Were taking it serious is. We have the National Guard out here. We have Emergency Operations set up. We are taking all precautions on this one. Now, transportation is being provided residents in this area to the get nearby shelters. We are expect issing the river to crest at 38 feet. That would make it six feet. We could see more flooding later today. Pete suratos, today in the bay. People were out of their homes. These were mandatory evacuations. Heres a look at why. Look at all that rain. The creek continues to rise dangerously fast. The Emergency Alert sounded last night. City officials warned everybody out west of town. The creek nearly took over a bridge, threatening nearby homes. No word when evacuations will be lifted. Still no word if weather caused a water main break. The water main