Evening he everybody. Dan has the night off. Im amma. It was a storm for the record book. 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian here with live doppler 7hd. Spencer. Okay. Heres live doppler 7hd you can see most of the Bay Area Experience what we call quiet weather conditions right now. Very also in the way of green showing up in the screen. Fleck of moisture here and there. As we close into santa cawz mountains here you can see a little bit of light rain and widely scattered areas of showers moving through the Santa Cruz Mountains. Just about all we have at the moment. But what about the rain fall total since wednesday afternoon when the big storm began. Between 6 and 7 inches of rain recorded at santa rosa and saint helena. 3. Skoyv inches San Francisco over 4 inches in oakland. 3 and a half or more in good soaking from the storm now heres the forecast animation beginning 11 00 oclock tonight. Everything dries out tomorrow morning indicating at least off to sunny start this weekend. Amma. All right. Thank you spencer. One of the big concerns today has been the situation along the Russian River in guerneville the river overflowed the bank. Could you see there was an awful lot of flooding. It crested around 11 this morning. Water is expected to drop throughout the evening. 7 news report are cornell with more now from guerneville. The only way across this road is by boat or very big truck. At least half dozen roads around guerneville are under water. After the swollen Russian River crested at 33 feet. One foot above flood stage. Many homes are cut off. Right now they are pretty much stuck. One road in. One road out. Most house on his drake road cut off by high World Trade Center unless you have a big truck. Like vince. He ferry us to the house where the river has enveloped his back steps. Back yard under water. Yes. No kayaking at this time of year. Fwlu was kayaking at this spot which used to be the pee wee golf course. Sonoma county officials call for voluntary evacuation at the height of the storm. I didnt sleep last night. Henry hamlin considered leaving after the river came way too close to his house overnight. Had no clue where the water was going to stop. Right now about a fat below and in the basement. This contractor rescued what Tools Company from the hows building. Now partially submerged. Know what are you going to do. Fletcher came down with her daughter to see how high the water got. I have lived here for 4 years this year and thinks the highest it has been since i have been here. So yes. Hoping it will keep pushing out to the ocean. Low lying flooding has been a uniter of sorts. Neighbors helping neighbors. This is kind of exhilaratin exhilarating. People come together. Neighbors are its kind of a bonding experience for everybody thats around here. Reporter Sonoma CountyOfficials Say the Russian River is receding and will continue to do that over the next 48 hours. Family shelter which were open overnight will continue to stay open to the weekend but many people have returned to their homes. In againville, abc 7 news. The scenes like this all over the bay area yesterday. Cars stuck in flooded underpass like this one in berkeley. Stuck in parking lot and road. Clean up began today. Laura reports from ashby avenue in berkeley. Waist high full of water. Car drove inment didnt see the water and got basically swampe swamped. Tow truck driver saw it all thursday at one point pulling the submerged car from flooded ashby avenue in berkeley. That was after fishing out another car from a pond in estuary park. Started getting a little deep. Turns around drove that the pond and went nose down natural pond. Back wheel stick up in the air. Wasnt going any further. So we pulled it out and actually started up and drove away. You have. Drivers found themselves suddenly in high water here. Phenomenon happened, happened in the bay area in a long time. And that look of experience showed in the way people drove concerning to chp officer mvt you. A lot of cars got stuck in the water and as the flooding continued the water rose before the window in the car and car competely submerged. In rohnert park 7 news was there when several cars tried to navigate a flooded roadway. Some of them not making it to the other side. About next stop for many water lying cars trip to trusted mechanic. Oakland said somebody can be saved if dried out promptly. Others not so much. What happens when water gets into the engine it situation. Inside the engine has to be air and fuel. Mix and the car run runs. If water get inside the water and fuel the. Staples the engine die forever or need thousands ofepas from last nature totally submerged in water, im told that they are likely totalled. I also learn today that the newer cars dont do as well as the old cars after sitting in water because of all the fancy electronics. In berkeley, Laura Anthony abc 7 news. Lots of people across the bay area cleaning up trees that lots of people across the bay area cleaning up trees that came crashing down overnight this giant live oak tree came crashing down on to a home on 7th street in channing way in berkeley. Homeowner says he heard a loud noise right around 1 00 oclock this morning when the neighbors tree fell and broke right through his roof thankfully nobody was hurt. And dramatic wake up call for people in union city. Large eucalyptus tremendous fell on to Residential Care facility on tree court this morning and damaged the Main Building and 2 pwrms in the back of the facility 2 residents wept to the hospital as precaution. Everybody else was taken to another care facility until repairs could be made. Look at the tree that fell on home on popular avenue in san mateo adding insult to injury in the situation and neighbor tells us the now owner just closesed on the house yesterday. 2 gaping holes in a safeway store. East capitol expressway was open yesterday with people inside when partsd of the ceiling came crashing down in the isles. Some workers say they heard the building making creeking noises before the rav collapsed and told everyone to get outment one person suffered by nor jersey. The store is still closed. Come to find out the roof nell from the accident they had yesterday so guess it wont be no ice cream for awhile. We dont know what caused either collapse at this point but clearly its dynamic situation. The walls and roof are change their positions and thats why we are keeping everybody out because its not safe to go in there right now. The City Building inspector must now determine if the store is still structural sound. Problems in redwood city tonight. This is the la mar Mobile Home Park view from sky 7 hd. Several feet of standing water and concern is growing about the rising tide and the additional problems this that may cause. As chris winn explains residents there frustrated and many wondering what is next. Neighbors at the mobile park here are in disbelief. Believe me i dont have any words to say or express myself how sad i am. The its really sad. Water rose fast because of yesterday storm. We met one this the woman who lived here for 20 years. Frustrated she says look of response from the Property Owner city. I start crying. Ty cant go inside my house to get all my stuff out. Miguel was also among the dozens forced out of their hom home. Fight about with the Property Owner nowhere to be found others came to theescu rescue. This man brought over a water pump from the place of employment. My boss good man yes go ahead take anything you want. Neighbors have left multiple message for the Property Owner. He hadnt returned any of our calls. For now just training to stay positive. We work. Thats all we can do. Cant if fight mother nature. The of some opted to ride out the storm in the cars. If redwood city abc 7 news. Another angle of partial collapse of highway 1 in marin county here. Storm washed away much of the soil beneath the road. Caltrans working on repair plan but may not be fixed until march. This poodle puppy one of of handful of pets taken in by the planes Humane Society after owner evacuate from 2 Mobile Home Park in san mateo county. 4 dog and cat taken in and reunited with owner soon. Homeowner sought shelter with red cross and they did not allow pets. We h h h h h h have mu morehr you on this fray night. Coming up. With so much rain. It would be easy to hope this is over. How much the storm actually helped the drought. Plow working over time in the sierra tonight. We show you what its like up there. 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After days of rain many ask is the drought over. Not quite yet according to experts. This is a look from sky 7 hd at the lexington reservoir in santa clara county. Despite the rain its still critically low. 7 News Reporter january thon bloom reports from alongside Guadalupe Creek in san jose. We asked nancy for interview we had no idea we would be helping her fill sand bag. I have a door i should have repaired over the summer. I need to just block the this. What happened during the storm yesterday . I used a towel. Admittedly hard to think about flooding when so busy with the drought. Tichb stalled low flow shower heads. On my shower we have 3 bathroom about. Two days ago roberto could have picked up sand bag but now stuck filling his own after they rap out. We had about 12 cars deep pretty much all day yesterday as well as the day before just preparing for the storm. So much water you might think the drought is over. But you would be wrong. Rainfall didnt produce as much inflow or run off into the reservoir as we had originally expected. Sky 7 shows the rest vir still critically low in before and after shots from the Water District you can see the storm helped. Dry ground soaked up so much the reservoir only rose by 3 percent. And reservoir is only the first step. Need to remen issue the ground water bass in. It will take time to the help the grou group. Water released into the bond where it soaks into the aquifer and see the bond are still dry. Another storm coming. I say dripping it on but a little steadier. Slow and steady you know. When people get flooded its not right. Pass that request on to the abc weather team. Heres got news. How and when the rainfall next storm bring more help for the drought because the ground is wet. Morning meaning more of the water if help the south bay water supply from the reservoir. Other bit of good news. While the pond empty the Water District has been cleaning them out leaving a nasty soft surface at the bottom for the water to seep down more quicklyp before. In san jose, abc 7 news. Bart new connect or shuttle in oakland isapen tonight after closure that lasted for most of the day. Service stopped when train hit debris on the track this morning. Knocking out the system that powers light air conditioning and the train car doors. The connect or between Oakland Airport and the coliseum bart station up and running just before 5 30. Still down to 1 track though. Bart says until today delay it really had been so far so good with the new system they launched just last month. Its really popular the passengers love it. It has been serving over 2000 about 2 2500 each day and people love it so its a shame its not working today. Passengers throughout the day took the ac transit 73 bus as go between. Bart cancelled call for additional bus and says the connect or is running now every 20 minutes. Roads open without chain control in the sierra tonight. They got several inches of snow from the storm. Dave has more from donner summit. This is kind of opening day really. Galen and his father john are gearing up to head into the back country. We have been hoping for this for awhile. Skin on the ski to climb uphill. Snow is a little wet and heavy so its slow but right now begger cant be khootser right. 3 to 4 fresh feet of snow in case they get hit. The. If buried you can locate them and i have a shovel. They practice law together in reno. And they have been doing this for a while. I think i took him up when he was about 3 years old in my pack and now i follow him up. Sierra goes along too and for all 3 the reward up here is pretty basic. I like being up there. At the time solitude and being up in the snow is unique experience. Getting away from it all for a couple hours and good exercise too. That was Dave Markowitz reporting. Yosemite received its first snow fall of the season. National park service tweeted this photo today of yosemite falls. Suitable. For framing that looks very pretty. Lets look at another picture here. This was sent in by matt who wrote if you are looking for gold at the end of the rainbow, check under the campbell water tower. And heres view of another rainbow from santa clara this one captured by 7 viewer victor the kelly. Spencer has been looking for the gold at the end of the rainbow. Not found it. Other places too. Lacking for gold if all the wrong places. Yes. We have gelleden weekend coming our way. Part of it. Heres live doppler 7hd. You can see the rain has tapered off to almost nothing. We just have little trickle of light showers in some widely scattered areas of the bay area but one of those areas is rate here at Half Moon Bay with isolated shower going on right now but most of the bay area experiencing quite wet weather despite the fact the heavy rain has ended. We still have a flood advisory in effect for much of the bay area from the golden gate from antioch south ward. East bay. Peninsula. South bay. In effect if 5 00 oclock tomorrow morning as we have water standing in many location. The ground is so saturated. Offshore we have little widely scattered areas of light rain developing and moving in our direction but nothing very threatening. Still though as i mention flooding is a concern. Russian river has been flooding at various locations thrust the day and in the evening. At guerneville the river crested earlier today about 2 feet above flood stadium right now couple fchs before flood stadium in guerneville. Minor to moderate flooding in that region. Cresting continues to mav downstream there by raising concerns about flooding in other locations. Right now around the bay Area Temperatures mainly in the mid upper 40s in the north bay. Coolest region of the bay area. Low mid 50s in most other locations and check out this beautiful live view from our exploratorium camera looking towards the embarcadero center. Notice the few cloud in the camera view here just mostly clear skies at the moment. At least in this location. These are the forecast feature. Showers diminish tonight. We have break saturday and most of sunday. But more rain arrives sunday night and continues through early part of next week at least. Heres satellite radar composite im am. There is the cold front yesterday. Ridge of High Pressure moves in to give us a break from the rain on saturday and for most of sunday then comes this next storm which arrives sunday night and thats going to produce some soaking rain on monday. So we start our forecast animation sunday afternoon at 5 00 oclock at which point cloud increasing. Later sunday night we see about 10 00 oclock or so rain arriving on the coast of the north pay up into parts of so norjs marin county right around the golden gate then during the overnight hours to 5 00 oclock monday morning we see more wide spread 80s of rain and some pockets of fairly heavy rainfall moderate heavy rainfall in some spots as the morning rush begins on monday. Later in the day around 1 00 oclock in the afternoon we see much more wide spread written fall with areas of moderate to heavy rain. We are projecting early on rainfall total reaching up to 2 inches in the Higher Elevation by monday afternoon so this mrb a pretty good soaking as well. Overnight tonight look for partly cloudy skies. Chilly conditions low mainly upper 30s around 40 in the north bay valley. Tomorrow high barely reach 60 grease and not in many locations. Heres accuweather 7 difficult forecast. After mainly dry weekend. Into a rainy pattern again. Beginning sunday night continuing through the middle next we can and perhaps all the way to the end of the week. Periods of rain and showers 4 out of 5 days next wichblingt incredible. Still to come 7 news at 9 00. Oakland adding up the still to come 7 news at 9 00. Heres some news youhe may find surprising. Were for an open internet for all. Were for creating more innovation and competition. Were for Net Neutrality protection. Now, heres some news you may find even more surprising. Were comcast. The only isp legally bound by full Net Neutrality rules. There are several events scheduled this weaned in the bay area. Organized by people outraged over the decision not to charming the Police Officers who killed unarmed black men. The father of Michael Brown the teenager who was shot by daryn wilson in ferguson, missouri is expected to make an appearance at