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KTVU KTVU Morning News December 12, 2014

We are not done yet with the Team Coverage. We have reporters out there and sal is watching the roads. How is it looking right now . Well, the rain is picking up, the cold air is working its way in and the cool, unstable air will produce the possibility of a thunder shower again today. A shower is picking up in the north bay and off of the san mateo, santa cruz coast. And more rain lines in the Sierra Nevada and Southern California where they are having all sorts of issues. You can see here near santa rosa the rain is coming on shore. Fort bragg and the new point arena a little rain. Hayward is quiet, however, it is right offshore heading to santa cruz and the monterey peninsula. In the past 24 hours i have tried to get as many rainfall totals as i can. Take a look here. Sunnyvale had 4. 06. Fairfax had 4. 81. If you have totals send them to me and i will do my best to get them on the air. The snow level is around 5,000 feet. Blue canyon is reporting snow. 40s and 50s on the temps. Shower activity today then things will calm down tonight. We will have a lot of fog over the weekend. Maybe patchy fog and possible thunderstorms here. 50s on the temps. Sal, things are getting busy for you already . That is right. Southbound 10 is a crash near oyster point, north of oyster point and sierra point parkway after Candlestick Park as you are driving south toward the airport. There is flooding. There was also a crash involving an overturned vehicle in the area. The crash has been cleared, but the flooding remains and the traffic is going to be busy as you drive south because they closed off one lane. In fact, it seems rather suspicious that there is flooding in an area right where a crash occurred, so putting two and two together, i am not positive but this could have led to the crash on 101 at bay shore. Please had careful and expect delays. 280 to 380 is a good alternate route or if you know your way around south city, you could do that, as well but i would say use 280 to 380 to save yourself time. Northbound 280 traffic is moderately heavy but still looking good driving town highway 17. And there goes caltrain. Caltrain is much better today than yesterday after all that flooding. Today the traffic on the system is doing well. 6 03. Lets go back to the desk. Now from the south bay that sal was talking about up to the north bay where more rain is falling at this hour. It is easing a bit but flooding remain as big concern up there. Alex savage is live in petaluma to show us one neighborhood dealing with significant flooding. Alex . Reporter yes, pam. Good morning to you. This area in petaluma was overwhelmed why the rain it got yesterday and the morning the water levels are beginning to fall, but still you can see behind me on petaluma boulevard north, standing water is still an issue and this roadway is shut down right at the 101 freeway here. We will show you the scene. We have crews on standby. They are essentially waiting for the water to recede in this area. Part of the problem is the Petaluma River is not far away and it is over running its banks yesterday when things were really coming down. Here is what it looked like in the early evening hours. A lot of people that lived close by were caught off guard by the rising floodwaters. Many of them trying to get to Higher Ground or sent to shelters nearby. Fire crews were checking on people to see if they were okay and needed help. Emergency crews had to rescue some folks trapped by rising floodwaters. There were a dozen people working in an industrial part of town who were loaded on to rafts, and others, at the same time, waited for the water to go down. We have approximately 30 people sheltered and this place. We are looking at localized stream flooding and basing operations as such. We should be close to peak dependant on weather. Reporter this was the scene this morning as the waters rose yesterday. Many people were forced to abandon cars and we saw a couple cars sitting along stoney point road, a couple blocks from where we are this morning off of petaluma boulevard north. Live, again, petaluma boulevard north remains shut down in both directions at 101. Crews here tell me they are waiting for the later to we seed but with more rain beginning to fall it to recede, but with more rain beginning to fall, it will likely take a couple hours for this area to open back up. Thank you, alex. Scary times for shoppers in a Safeway Store in san jose, with part of the roof collapsing because of the big storm. Tara moriarty is at the safeway near capital expressway at silver creek road where the roof there could cave in again. Reporter yes. No one is being allowed inside because of the danger of yet another collapse. This building has been red tagged and this building will not be opening again any time soon. It was loud. It sounded like thunder. Reporter that noise sent workers and shoppers scrambling to get out. Part of the roof came crumbling down. By ground and air police and fire determined the hole was 50x50 feet with cracks extending out another 50 feet. It could still collapse. That is why the building is still secured. Nobody will be going in there. Reporter crews went in looking for people but everyone appeared to get out unscathed except for one person with a minor injury. The building has been red tagged, as well as another store that share as common wall with safeway. As far as what caused this, firefighters say it could have been standing water from the weather we have been having. I am Tara Moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. This weeks monster storm created incredible scenes you rarely see in the bay area. Look at this video from berkeley. That is just the top of one car after the underpass flooded near ashby avenue and i880. People who live in this area say this section of ashby often has stabbing water, even on dry days. This undercrossing is wet july 1st. There is always water under it, so i dont know why anybody would try to ride through it. Highway crews worked until well past midnight to remove the cars and reopen the underpass. The owner of a San Francisco dine their flooded is blaming the city rather than Mother Nature for their misfortune. The stable cafe is located at 17th and folsom street in the mission district. Even though it is paved over there, the creek flows when it rains. Workers sandbagged the buildings ahead of the storms but yet this place was flooded for the fourth time in the last six years. The stable owners say the city has made the situation worse by repaving folsom street, causing the street to be higher than the homes and businesses. Well, sfo say there is are only nine canceled flights this morning, a big improvement after more than 250 flights were canceled yesterday. No major problems expected at the oakland and san jose airports, however, if you are flying today, it is pretty wise to check on your flight ahead of time. If you are headed to sfo this morning, you may want to go buy food before you go to the airport. This is day two of a strike by a thousand Airport Restaurant workers who walked off the job yesterday over concerns about job security and health care. The walkout shut down most of the Airport Restaurants right at the peak of the storm. The workers are expected to be back on the job tomorrow. Alameda police are investigating the death of a pedestrian struck and killed by an ac transit was. It happened yesterday evening at otis drive and grand boulevard. The man who died, investigators say, was walking in a crosswalk when a bus hit him. Police are questioning the does driver to determine how it happened. Starting this afternoon bart riders and Holiday Shoppers can ask for safety excorts at three oakland stations. It is there to curve crime for people riding back from the city. Volunteers and crew will be on hand to walk people back to their cars. It runs from 4 00 to 7 00 at the west oakland, fruitdale and Macarthur Bart stations. You can identify the escorts because they will be wearing yellow safety vests. That is great. Yes. The time is 6 10. We are talking Power Outages from yesterday, a transformer fire by the San Francisco busy union square. And catching waves, where you would least expect it. Tahoe is pulling out surfboards. At the macarthur maze, we have a little slowing, just around the corner where you get to the bridge it is backed up there. It is now gone there at the bay bridge, but we will tell you what happened to make it a little slower. And quieter on the commute but there is an area of rain coming from the san Mateo Santa Cruz coastline. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is 6 13. This is high surf on lake tahoe. Dude yes. Yes waves like this on the happen a couple times a year. The water temperature there is only about 50. Get your board, sal lets check it out. Wow well, the toll plaza is a little slow with a lot more traffic volume. Yesterday was an unusual day. All school were closed and a lot of parents stayed home and a lot of office were closed but today in San Francisco it is ability back to normal, now backed up to the maze. Lets talk about the commute on i880. It looks good in both directions. Yesterday at this time i was looking at a lot of wind here. It was windy yesterday at this time but right now it looks much better as you drive through. Southbound 101 near sierra point there is flooding in one of the lanes and a little slowdown. You could use 280 to 380 at an alternate route. Remember the slow down is in the right lane. If you are driving on the east shore freeway this morning not a lot of slow traffic yet, but it is getting busy in the richmond area and slow traffic on the richmond san family and friends yell bridge into morin county. Steve, how about Weather Center . We are the storm brothers that is right. I like that thank you, sal. Rain is picking up a little bit. Rain has turned to snow in tahoe and tricky. They had light rain and now snow. Patchy fog and more embedded thundershowers and brief heavy rain forming off the marine coast to the san mateyo and santa cruz area. See the long line there . Nothing compared to what we had yesterday at this time. Some of the rain beginning in the north bay, cloverdale to lake port. I will have rain totals in a second. Hidden valley lake. Clear lake is okay. South of that at windsor and petaluma, thank you for all the information there. Our observer, gary, said, man, i could not get out of the house yesterday. But today we could see more thundershowers or brief, heavy rain along the coast. Within the next hour things could pick up here. I try to get as many rain totals thanks to each of you. Take a look at these totals. Redwood shores hat 6. 90 by a observer patrick. Chris kimball over 5. 75. And santa rosa spectacular. 7. 68 there. Some of the areas there that picked up rain in the last 24 hours are really good. Santa rosa 5 inches of rain. Anywhere you want to look it is at least 3 to 4. Look at that. Fremont 3. Livermore 3. Fairfield 3. Napa 3. 75. San family and friends yell 4. 5 inches of rain. 4plus for redwood city. Sunnyvale 4. There is a line that goes along the coast moving in. This it will colder air moving its way in. It looks like snow on the go beginning to pick up in the sierra so a winter storm warning goes until 10 00. I mean if you have to go now, good luck on that. 40s and 50s on the temps. A cool day. The main bulk of the system in Southern California and town the sierra, kind of a showery, cold day with brief, heavy downpours and possible thunderstorms. Any breaks in the clouds would help. I think we are in line for thunder shower activity today and even patches of fog out there, but more likely late tonight and tomorrow. One more day of active weather today and a lot of fog in the nights and mornings over the weekend. The system on monday will not be as strong. All right, steve. Time now 6 18. New snow in the sierra the morning. 2 feet of snow fell in the Higher Elevations and tahoe got almost a foot of snow. Our favorite reporter brine hickey live in new canyon now. It is really brian hickey live in new can don now. Did you build your shelter in new canyon now. Did you build your shelter yet . Reporter well, i am sad to report the Christmas Lights hanging are have come down i have to look up the maker on those. The lights worked 24 7 for years but now they have expired well, up here this morning the wind has died down to next to nothing. At blue canyon it is 32 degrees with a good, steady snowfall. Very light traffic up here. Caltrans did a great job overnight, i will not say clearing the roads but grooming the roads because they are still covered in snow but it is easy travel if you are prepared for the wintery conditions up here. What a sight. This is more snow than we had all of last year here at blue canyon so hopefully this will be the norm for the season. Last year it was mostly sand here, so the good news is we have snow here and hopefully it will keep oncoming. And this is just a footanda half at the base. I cant wait to hear the snowfall totals at the top. Will it be great. Thank you. Brian, Steve Paulson has to talk to you about the snow up there. Brian, the blizzard warning was canceled but winter storm warning until 10 00 a. M. Reporter excellent. I saw we will see clearing tomorrow. It may be a great weekend to come here and do a little snow play, or bring the surfboards as you saw yesterday. That was incredible. I will bring you some lights. Reporter leds lets go green. Thank you, brian hickey live at blue canyon. Appreciate it. The blue canyon newsroom. Right at 6 30 a look at the increasingly dangerous conditions at a major river in the north bay and when people could be forced out of their homes there. Yes. And is it better to buy or rent. A big question and the result of the study that may actually surprise you. This is the nicholas family out of guam. We would like too say happy new year to all the nicholass in oakland and San Francisco, california. Happy christmas. Merry christmas. Happy new year . Welcome back to the morning news. Time 6 24. The head of the california Highway Patrol in the bay area is defending what an undercover officer did when he pointed his gun as protestors in oakland. This photo taken by a Bay City News photographer shows the chp officer holding the gun sideways. The chp says two undercover officers mixed in with a crowd of protestors, but when someone outed them as police, protestors started attacking them. At one point one of the officers pulled out his gun. He drew the weapon to identify himself. It was excessive. When you take police who are not accustomed to the situations like this, bad things are going to happen. Now the chp says the mission of those officers was to keep protestors off the highways. The Alameda County District Attorney is reviewing the incident now. In washington, d. C. A large group of africanamerican congressional staffers staged a protest right on the steps of the u. S. Capitol about the Police Killing in missouri and new york. They raised their arms in the hands up, dont shoot gesture used by demonstrators around the country. The organizers say the congressional staffers wanted to do something in support of the National Protest against police aggression. Well, the senate is expected to vote today on a 1. 1 trillion spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown after the house approved the bill just before midnight last night. That was supposed to be the deadline, but since house approval came so late the senate was given a 48 hour extension to take up the measure. Democrats object to some republican addons in the spending bill, but no one wants to see a Government Shutdown. The pass many would fund most Government Agencies through next september. The American Dream shows owning a home is more affordable but not because house prices are still falling. Zillow says homeowners earning an average monthly income will spent 15 on their monthly mortgage but renters spend on average 3330 of their mcon average 30 of their income on rent. And business pages called call to action help facebook users. There are as many as seven buttons on each page that make it faster for users to play a game, watch a video, use an app or contact a company. It will start showing up on business pages in the next few weeks. It is now 6 26. A trip to Grocery Store turns to the worst. What forced people to turn back when trying to shop in the east bay. And steady water continues to be an issue after yesterdays storm. A major thoroughfare in petaluma closed in both directions. We will tell you how long it may take before the road will reopen. Weather related problems now persist especially because of standing water. We will tell you more as the gait gait traffic looks golden gate traffic looks good. And look at the rain off the morin San Francisco area. We will have a closer look at that coming up. Well, good morning and welcome back. We are live in petaluma. People are still dealing with flooding there after huge flooding from yesterdays storm. We have ktvus alex savage live from petaluma showing us some of the damage they are waking up to this morning. Welcome to ktvu morning news on 2 on this friday, December December 12th. I am dave clark. And i am pam cook. Welcome. Things are looking better this morning than yesterday. Yes. But in windsor and petaluma, well, raining there again. Lets get right to it. Thank you for all the rainfall information. I cant show too many this time but i will in 12 minutes. Look at the line there. I would say 20 minutes to a half hour away continuing to march east from San Francisco to south San Francisco, pacifica, and over the golden gate bridge. The general rain is also here with the colder

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