It happened about 33 a. M. This is the San Lorenzo River yesterday and at the same time today rising several feet overnight. I thought we had a tornado because it had that kind of hard driving train sort of sound. It was hammering on the roof so hard, it was pretty bad. Reporter and it was no better on the roads. Driving through a heavy downpour on twisty highway 17 can be nerveracking, but try doing it when you cant see a thing. That was scary. At a spot where the pavement turned into a riverbed, the car in front put up is up a rooster tail, it was like trying to steer a sub through a waterfall. It hasnt been easy on anyone up here in the mountains. Just getting around highway 17 and the other lesser highways up here has been very difficult request road closures, mud slides, rock slides, and as you saw it, heavy rain and heavy water on the roadway. Ken, back to you. Scary stuff out there. At least youre dry tonight, len. Thank you for that. Reporter drawing off this latest round of storms brought down power lines in san jose. Firefighters kept a close eye on the four houses they landed on. Lines were still live and smoking when pg e showed up. The north bay has also been a mess. Kpix 5s da lin continues our coverage from marin now. Da . Reporter yeah. The rain, the heavy downpours, flooded about 10 shops at this tiburon shopping center. Some of the shops will be closed for the week because the damage is so severe. And lets take a look at the water line from this morning. You can see here from this Vantage Point some places are about 18 to 19 inches deep for the water line. Roads intersections and businesses under water. This was how the Cove Shopping Center in tiburon looked early this morning. It flooded this picture frame studio along with nine other shops. Business owner tom craig lot a good chunk of irreplaceable artwork. I guess the biggest heartbreaker is the fact that i have lost customers artwork and maybe some irreplaceable, you know, family heirlooms. Reporter he says most of these pieces cannot be saved. Its pretty much ruined. I mean, theres no way you can sell or collect or frame Something Like that with all that water damage. Reporter anything that was sitting on the floor is gone. He says it will cost him tens of thousands of dollars. The signed limited edition and its numbered and reporter jerry garcia. Of jerry garcia. I havent got then there yet but i have a feeling that the paper is going to be damaged. Reporter neighbors businesses like this u. P. S. Store are also ripping out carpet and cleaning up the mess. Very frustrated. Um, you know, but what can you do . Reporter the heavy downpour flooded streets in the north bay. This man decided to paddle his board to get around. Some who tried to drive through the floodwaters stalled. But that did not stop others from doing it at this larkspur intersection, people and drivers ignoring warning signs by walking and driving in more than a foot of water. Its been pretty bad. We have had a lot of clogged drains due to all the leaves and like right here we had a couple of branches fall down and block the sidewalk. Reporter at this u. P. S. Store about 15 packages got damaged from the water. Hopefully there are no Christmas Gifts there. And you can see why its taken them possibly up to a week to get things back to normal. This carpet right here its pretty much done. You can see its concrete floor at this point. They have to wait for a company to put in new carpet before they can reopen these doors. Live in tiburon, im da lin, kpix 5. Thank you. This is the track at Tamalpais High School in mill valley. You can see floodwaters swilling over from the nearby inlet completely covered miller road. The north bay got the brunt of the storm. Water flooded classrooms at the Casa Grande High School in petaluma. This is the band and choir room. Crews had to sweep out a foot of water. The other big story with the storm has been the wind. It was howling in pacifica today whipping up the waves. Gusts were Strong Enough to shred this american flag. In saratoga, this huge tree couldnt withstand the strong winds and rain. It was uprooted and leaning dangerously close to homes. No way to save this one. Crews were called out to cut it down. Similar story in San Francisco except this tree completely gave way. It was blocking part of the intersection at valencia and duncan streets near california Pacific Medical center. Chief meteorologist paul deanno is tracking our weather right now. Paul, what are you looking at . Things finally calming down after 48 hours. The wettest 48 hours we have had in six years in the bay area. It will not be as stormy tonight. The rain is tapering off. That is the big headline. Still some showers out there. There will be showers out there for the next several hours. Gilroy, morgan hill, san jose, san mateo picking up a few showers but off to the north, we see virtually no rainfall north of San Pablo Bay and north of the golden gate. Things are finally calming down but look at the rainfall totals six inches of rain in san anselmo. Napa 2. 5. Lafayette more than 3. Brentwood nearly 3 and petaluma 4. 5 of rainfall. You asked for rainfall. We got it. Widespread heavy rainfall is done. Scattered showers continue this evening but all in all we cant say rainfree. The rain is tapering off but it still will be around because the unsettled pattern isnt going anywhere. So well talk about two additional rain chances when they arrive and how much rain well get coming up in about 8 minutes. When it rains, it pours. Now the saying. One San Francisco street wasnt ready for the water giving way to a massive sinkhole. Mike sugerman reports, that giant sinkhole is part of a bigger problem. Mike. Reporter kenny, they worked on this thing all day today. They are going to work all night tonight all day tomorrow probably all night tomorrow night and hopefully get this thing fixed by friday because that is one big hole in the ground. Its, um, 20 by 30 by 10, i believe, and it comes about because despite all our modern conveniences, the pipes that bring us water and take away our sewage are a century old. The center of the Worlds Technology brain trust runs on an infrastructure built before there was television. This is what happens sometimes. We had a water main break. We have them all the time. Reporter but rarely do they end with a scene like this or like this. It was 195 when the earth opened up in this nearby seacliff neighborhood squalling this house in seconds leaving a cloud of dust and all because a city sewer ruptured during a storm. The sewage below our feet flows in a labyrinth of pipes that crisscross 1,000 miles more than half at least 70 years old. The water pipes in front of my house still have the Spring Valley water cap on them. Reporter thats the Water Company that became the citys Water Department in 1930. The pipe that broke today wasnt new then. This pipe dates back to 1905. Reporter its 110 years old. This is the very pipe that broke. They are going to patch it up in that big hole. Its 20 feet by 30 feet and 10 feet deep sucked in when a sewer pipe ruptured and the water pipe gave way. We are chasing emergencies and we have the triage mode, as well. Reporter water was out for some of the neighborhood a lot of the day. Its back on now. They continue work to fix the sinkhole that ate sixth avenue. In San Francisco, mike sugerman, kpix 5. There have been widespread Power Outages across the bay area. Thousands are still without power tonight including 1400 customers in San Francisco. Another 1300 are in the dark along the peninsula. Along with 655 in the north bay and a few dozen in the east bay. A big pothole disrupted westbound traffic on the bay bridge this morning. It is the first one on the new span. It opened up before treasure island. Caltrans closed two lanes for about 20 minutes midmorning to make emergency repairs. With rain off and on throughout the forecast be sure to bookmark kpix. Com where you can look ahead to conditions in your area and get your weather on the go. Download the cbs bay area weather app. People in San Francisco ending the year on a bit of a sour note and they are taking their frustrations out on mayor lee. It turns out. But only on 5, phil matier tells us it will take a lot more than falling Approval Ratings to take the mayor down. Right, phil . Reporter thats right, ken. But i got to tell ya, you walk the streets of San Francisco, you are hearing a lot of grumbling. Lets take a listen. Housing costs are astronomical. Cant afford to live here. Reporter according to an exclusive kpix 5 surveyusa poll, almost half of the People Living in the city say the quality of life is getting worse. Thats a 16point rise over last year with almost half of them pointing to the rocketing cost of owning a home as the big reason for the unhappiness. Im in the middle of an eviction. Reporter all driven by an unprecedented tech and building boom putting the squeeze on the middle class. At the same time its also driving down mayor lees Approval Rating some 14 point since last year. The people feel as though city hall and the mayor in particular are not listening to them. They feel like he is only paying attention to the Billionaire Developers and they dont reflect what San Francisco needs. Reporter have you given any thought to just putting the brakes on all this development saying enough is enough for right now . Then you will have another survey that says what about the jobs you promised . I made my first three years jobs, jobs, jobs. You knew that. Now we have 4. 3 unemployment. That is success. Reporter despite the drop in the mayors popularity, no one is willing to run against lee. State senator mark leno took a look at the polls and talked around the town but ultimately said no. Why . Numbers are not definitive. Theres a great desire for change. I was not certain that this is the time. Reporter what is tough about taking on Something Like ed lee . First of all, ed is an appealing figure. He is a very amiable likeable guy. When its backed up by his billionaire buddies its a very intimidating prospects. Reporter you think anybody is going to run against you . Of course. I think one could emerge. Reporter what about you no. [ laughter ] im not going to. Reporter theres still a ways to go before they have the final deadline for filing to run against mayor ed lee and i got to say that if these numbers and these trends continue, you might find some people saying, hey, i think i have a shot. In San Francisco, phil matier, kpix 5. Homelessness was the second biggest complaint among people that we polled followed by schools, crime and, of course, parking. And we put the full results of our poll on kpix. Com. Still ahead, another bay area Law Enforcement agency says yes to unmanned drones. The growing debate Public Safety versus your privacy. And we continue tracking problems from todays rain. Where this tree came crashing down on some power lines that blocked the roadway. , at kaiser permanente, everything you need is under one roof. Another way care and coverage together makes life easier. Okay, a little easier. Become a member of kaiser permanente. Because together, we thrive. Deparment. That agency is launching something of a pr offensive. They are trying to build support for expense new Technology Many people y it was show and tell for the Alameda County police department. They trying to build support for Expensive Technology people dont want. Reporter it looked like media day at the bat cave as the Alameda CountySheriffs Department showed off all the hightech equipment at its disposal, bomb robots, radiation detectors and submarine. Todays press conference was called for one particular piece every equipment. For the drone here. For the unmanned aerial system, yes. Reporter the sheriff doesnt like calling his new flying machine a drone. He knows they arent particularly popular with a lot of people. But the department has purchased two of them for nearly 1 00,000. Why did you call the press conference . Because these systems are controversial because of the retention of data and because of the privacy concerns. So we saw what happened in other agencies when they didnt have a press conference. Reporter San Jose Police got a lot of flak for secretly buying theirs but ahern displayed a twoyear timeline of what he calls an open process. He insists that the aerial camera will only be used for searchandrescue, bomb threats, and crime situations where officers are in danger. We have an opportunity to make a safer environment for our people, im going to deploy that system. Reporter would that include protest situations. Well, protests youre dealing with First Amendment rights and things of that nature. Reporter opponents dont necessarily buy that. But ahern says that a Community Meeting 91 of people favored the use of the drones. Very obvious that people were in support of us utilizing this type of system. Reporter but that may not be surprising since the timeline says the survey was conducted at a Law Enforcement barbecue. The department sees this as just another hightech safety tool but they know people fear it. And no amount of press conferences is going to change that. In dublin, john ramos, kpix 5. The sheriff says it will take at least six months to get staff trained and certified to operate the drones. A wild crime spree in San Francisco. Until a man who seemed to be looking for trouble was shot by an off dude Police Officer. Police say a suspect first tried to break into a car this morning in the Lower Nob Hill neighborhood. He then attacked a pedestrian and caused trouble inside of a coffee shop. Finally, he tried to rob an off Duty Police Officer inside an apartment building. Police say after a brief struggling the officer shot the suspect. The suspect went to the hospital. The officer had scrapes and cuts. Bart passengers face a tough commute this morning as you can imagine after a small fire on the tracks in San Francisco. Not rain. Dozens of people were left waiting on platforms for delayed trains. Bart had to reduce service down to one track into and out of San Francisco because of the fire near the embarcadero station. It ended up causing a backlog systemwide. Returning to our storm coverage now, the rain made a huge mess of the morning commute out of marin. The combination of high tide and rainwater closed two lanes of southbound traffic on highway 101. It created a big backup that stretched back to novato for most of the morning. The weather is wreaking havoc all over the bay area today. Kpix 5s Ann Notarangelo shows us the problems toppled trees are causing in contra costa county. Reporter here in the east bay were looking forward to green hills again with the rain but right now that rain is us cag problems in orinda at mine that birder between camino at miner between camino real and other streets. Police responded to calls of fallen trees and car accidents. In concord at Rolling Woods way in glen willow one tree fell and crews were taking down another because they were concerned that it would fall and hurt someone or damage property. Trees are vulnerable because they are top heavy with growth and when you get rain the truck loses its stability. People who live in orinda and need to use miner road they should be aware that the road will likely be closed until 11 p. M. While they restore electricity and remove the tree. In lafayette Ann Notarangelo, kpix 5. A chance to towel off right now and take stock in whats going on. We had a great series of storms. I got say. Nice job. Youre welcome, kent. We dont get thunderstorms that often. We did. We dont see gusty winds that often. [overlapping speakers it was pretty rough last night. But it all added up to rainfall. It all added up to a lot of rain that we needed and theres more coming. Heavy rain, gusty winds, no. But we saw a lot of rainfall. Look at the totals. Fiveday totals just in added all up since friday, and the Santa Cruz Mountains we had doubledigit rainfall. More than 10 of rain in ben lomond. Still a little bit of rainfall out there some scattered showers in the hills through the caldecott tunnel highway 24 showers for you. Moraga getting showers and toward upper rockridge. Rain now pushing down to the south and east. There were flood warnings east of sacramento and interstate 80. But our heavy rainfall is finished because we talked for the past few days about a strong area of low pressure approaching us getting stronger and closer pulling up tropical moisture. Now we have the opposite that low is leaving so still some scattered showers in its wake. When the boat goes by you feel the waves after the boat is gone. With a strong low pressure system like this even after its gone well have showers behind it. Thats for tomorrow. Mixture of sun and clouds. Theres another storm out there two things are different. It wont be as close or strong. So only some light to moderate rainfall much calmer but still a wet day coming up on friday. Lets time things out with futurecast. You still see some scattered showers out there. But its all the gre