It is also very windy. Drivers reminded to keep both hands on the whole and 10 and 2 double fisting driving as ive heard it referred to. Thats happening on san mateo bridge, the Richmond Bridge and the bay bridge, very wet and very, very windy. Good morning and welcome back to mornings on 2. Im gasia mikaelian. Good morning, everybody. Im brian flores in for dave clark. Weather and traffic, steve is here. Pretty windy. 40 to 46 miles an hour. Its a windy, wet morning. Looks like the rain is decreasing ever so slowly. This low level stuff can go on and on and on and boy does it add up. Were waning on the rain. It is still there, but much thinner moisture coming out of the north. Matt moore, good morning. The hills picked up pretty good rain. Some of this can be a drizzle that keeps going and going, same for parts of the peninsula. The radar beam misses a lot, so it continues to just go and go up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 28 oakland, 30plus out at fairfield. Sfo had gusts from 40 to 47. Now 37. So i mean, a breezy, windy day for most. 50s and 60s on the temps, but our high temps might be set early this morning and then well see a decrease in rain. But light rain this morning. Windy and damp. Wind advisory. Rain decreasing by this afternoon. And then starting on thursday, a very, very cold system moving in. Ill have more on that coming up in the 10 or 15 minutes. Heres alex with an update on your traffic. Wind is the story today. Wind advisories are in place or several bay area bridges. Drive with caution this morning. We talked about the 10 and 2 position. Someone said on twitter that its actually supposed to be 9 and 3. Im going to do more research on that. Alex, if i can jump in, i think you and google are right. We are outdated by a few years apparently because of airbags its 9 and 3, not the 10 and 2 we grew up with. I said that as well and someone hit me on twitter. You can learn a lot from twitter, as we all know. Someone said its 9 and 3 because of that. We wanted to point that out because we dont want to give out bad information. 9 and 3, thats where its at. [ applause ] thank you. I was waiting for the [ applause ] lets look at the toll plaza. Its busy. Wind advisories for the bay bridge, Richmond San Rafael bridge and the san mateo bridge as well. Speaking of the san mateo bridge, let me show you that. It is quite a slow ride as you head west across the san mateo bridge. You can see there the traffic slowing down, all the taillights are folks heading west over toward the peninsula this morning and are getting a bit bogged down. To the maps we go. Well show you the same general vicinity here. The one issue you see a trouble spot right here in, this is a crash theyre trying to clear. Its cleared out of the lanes, but still causing a bit of a backup southbound 880 at whip pel road. Most of your freeways looking are pretty good. A couple slow spots youll encounter this morning. 7 04 and well send it over to brian and gasia. A lot of people waking up to find they dont have electric tis tree. Christein kafton is electricity. Christein kafton is live in marin county for a tree caused an outage. Reporter a busy night for pg e crews. This one at work in kent field trying to replace a power line and power pole that were knocked down when an old oak tree came crashing down. One neighbors lives across the street and says he was here at home when that tree came down. Were sitting at the dining room table and i heard this loud bang and i looked out and i saw nothing but big sparks, like a roman candle going. I thought what are the college kids doing now . Reporter that neighbor telling us at first he thought it was roman candles and he stepped outside and saw the power line had gone down and saw the sparks. Neighbors had a lot of rain and sustained winds in the area yesterday and that may have contributed to that old oak tree coming down. When it came down, the neighbor tells us it yanked the power, phone, and cable lines from his home. Initially it knocked out power to his home and the area where the tree was uprooted. Neighbors say its been a long night. Pg e turned the power off for safety. Theyve been amazing. Its been hard for them. They have not slept. Theyve been here since probably 8 30 last night. Reporter again, as we said, one utility pole snapped last night. Workers are working to replace that hole. Neighbors tell us two others were pulled when that oak tree came down. They say those will have to be repaired at this point. No word on when full power will be restored. This is very localized. Neighbors said it was his home and the one across the street. We saw lots of lights on at kent wood and mcallister street is where we first noticed that some of the homes were dark. We have a map that shows where the outages are still underway here at this hour. That pg e map coming up as we speak. There are still about a thousand customers without power around the bay area. Most are small outages similar to this one. Were hearing the largest area affect is redwood city with 240 customers still without power there. The advisory is if you do have a power outage, if you see lines down, for safety reasons, stay away from them. Well check in to hopefully get progress this morning. Thank you. This morning sfo is trying to recover from the backlog of flights caused by the wet weather. Only a third of mondays flights took off or landed on time. 120 flights were canceled or delayed. Some people couldnt find available flights until 8 00 tonight or later. Travelers returning to the bay area also had rough flights back. I had faith. Now im worried theyre not going to have our luggage. It was pretty turbulent at times. I havent experienced that in a while. Sfo says the main problem for outbound flights has been the wind which keeps shifting direction and causes problems for planes that need to face into the wind in order to take off. Faa issued a ground delay, restricting flights from coming into the airport because of rain and poor visibility. 7 08. P people who live in Contra Costa County are being asked to clean up storm drains and creeks to prevent flooding. Many creeks are flowing again, but there is concern that too much water could cause the creeks to overflow, especially if they get filled with debris. Most of the creeks in Contra Costa County, over 95 of the creeks are the responsibility of the private homeowner. You need to get into your own creek, removing downed trees, dead vegetation. Officials do say once the water does rise in the creeks, make sure you stay out of them. You can get up to the minute forecast information with the weather app. Its free for phones and tablets. 19yearold suspected drunk driver accused of four separate crashes, one deadly. The collisions happened over a 15 minute stretch starting at 10 30 and ended between capital expressway and highway 101. Police say the final crash claimed the life of another driver. Officers believe the suspect ran a red light and slammed into the drivers side of other car. Our traffic Investigation Unit is here and they are conducting that part of the investigation. Well let them make some determinations once they complete fact finding and then the suspect will be charged. The suspect was taken to the hospital for treatment. The crashes involved a total of six cars. No one else was hurt. Renewed effort to try to prevent drunk driving. A proposed bill would require ignition lock devices be installed on their first offense. Currently they are only even stalled after a third offense installed after a third offense. Marys son matt was attending the naval academy, killed by a drunk driver in 2001. If you put it in the medical paradigm, we give back things to are prevent a disease. This is like a vaccine on the car. State senator reintroducing the bill next year after putting a previous bill on hold. He says in arizona and new mexico, installing the devices after a first offense has reduced drunk driving deaths significantly. 7 10. Signs will go up around the Golden Gate Bridge this week reminding people the bridge is a nodrone zone. The park bans the use of the drones. The concern is they could crash and injure pedestrians or cyclists or cause Car Accidents on the span. According to the new federal rules that went into effect this week, drones must now be registered to make it easier to identify owners. Annual toy give away gets underway in san jose, but this year there may not be enough. In minutes the donations still needed days ahead of christmas. New lead into the investigation in credit card skemers found at two Safeway Stores in the east bay. The Evidence Police have against this man this morning. Tracking a very good commute so far. It seems to be fairly light on this holiday week, but ill show you a couple of slow spots you need to be aware of. And as you look at the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge, well tell you about wind advisories for bay area bridges coming up. Still rain out there, decreasing, but still some. Maybe for another couple hours. The wind is a big story and then a very cold system is on the way. More on that. Spend less time chasing sales and more time going the extra mile. Find thoughtful gifts at amazing prices everyday at t. J. Maxx, marshalls and homegoods. Investigators in las vegas say the woman suspected of driving her car into a crowd of pedestrians, killing one person and injuring dozens of others was homeless and out of money. 24yearold Lakeisha Holloway is in jail under suicide watch. Investigators say she had been sleeping in her car and may have been headed to texas after a falling out with the father of her child. The mother was with her 3yearold daughter when she drove into the crowd. Holloway appeared to be under the influence of a stimulant. Oakland police asking for help in finding the persons responsible for two deadly shootings last night. 32 near san pablo avenue, two people were shot outside a home. Victims pronounced dead at the scene. No word on any arrests. One witness told us that an angry crowd of 30 to 40 people gathered at the scene after the shooting. Federal investigators need your help. Surveillance cameras caught pictures of the man at the Safeway Store install the skem skimming device. A clerk saw him do it. The device was removed before any data compromised. They found another device on can dublin boulevard. It was installed by another suspect on the same day. Surfer out of australia says hell be still chasing waves after a Close Encounter with a shark. He was surfing when a 6 foot shark launched out of the water and landed on his board. The shark didnt bite him, but it sure gave him quite a scare as the shark was just inches from his face. I arched my back up, the fin brushed my leg and was on my surfboard. And then i screamed quite heavily, obviously. I love it. I screamed quite heavily. His wife says she doesnt want him going into the water for another 12 months, but he says he has no plans to stop surfing. Talking like a concerned wife would. Do not go out in the water for the next 12 months. Right. 7 16. Lets check in on the roads. Alex in for sal this morning. Pretty windy . Yeah. The wind has been the big story on the roadways. But i think a lot of folks are not going into work today. We seem to be generally pretty light in terms of our traffic volume. Hopefully you dont have to go into work today. Well take you out and show you the conditions. Walnut creek area, lafayette here, this is highway 24. Its a bit crowded heading westbound on highway 24. I also will show you 880 in oakland here and when we take 880 there it is. Normally i think at this hour after the 7 00 hour, we would be seeing a lot of cars making the their way up into the downtown oakland area. You can see its slowing down just a tad there. But it is not too bad. Now i want to go to the maps and ill give you another shot here at the east bay. You can see its going to be busy as you make your way toward the maze this morning. Thats going to be crowded. But not as bad as it could be. I also want to point out once you get past the toll plaza, i understand there is an accident that is blocking the left lane just after the toll plaza. And that may be backing things up going into San Francisco this morning. Keep that in mind. Then well take you here and give you a picture here. There is quite a bit of traffic on the san mateo bridge as well as you head westbound. 7 18. Thats the time. Wind a forecast. Thats what steve has for you. Alex, you are the man who kicked the hor nets nest with that Steering Wheel question. Twitter will set you straight. Am i right, steve . There you go. Twitter sets you straight. Thank you, sir. And thanks for the comments. Im teasing. Alex is the source. We have still rain holding on, although there are breaks in the clouds up in santa rosa under mostly cloudy skies. So there is an end to this moisture. That light, steady rain for marin county, Santa Cruz Mountains, russian river, 4 to eight inches in the last couple days. Lighter conditions to the northwest, a sign of things to come. Some of the rain totals, 7. 5. Santa cruz mountains 4. Mill valley over two and a quarter. Gilroy with two. Dublin fire station 1. 84 dubose 1. 99. Most locations about a half inch to over an inch. San rafael, napa, oakland. Oakland hills 2plus. Everyone was in pretty close here. Matt han li nshgsn, la honda, 50 and raining han lin, la honda. 50 and raining. The dry air is beginning to move in even though we have some trying to hold on. Thats the light rain can go and go and go. Showing less and less. Radar beam misses a lot of this. Wind 31 out of the northwest. Oakland airport had 44 Miles Per Hour gusts. Sfo 37. Windy day, decreasing on the breeze. 50s and 60s on your temps. The cold air is not here yet, but its on tap. Windy and damp, winter storm warning until 10 00 at the sierra. Lake levels mainly been rain. Above that a ton. Snow. Windy and damp. Light rain. Wind decreasing late morning. A lot of low 60s this afternoon. 9, 10 00 in the morning we start to see the colder air move in. A bit of a break for wednesday and then a very cold system moves in thursday and goes into friday morning, christmas morning. And then okay on the weekend, but cold. Very cold. Snow in our local . Snow around 3,000 feet christmas morning. Hamilton, diablo. Yes. We received pictures taken a short time ago showing the drive to the sierra. Chp reports a series of crashes and spinouts on 80 and highway 50. Right now chains are required on highway 50 between twin bridges and meyers, as well as interstate 80 between king vail and the donner lake interchange. Some californians may get a break from the Water Conservation requirements. Proposed allowing for 25 cuts to help farmers. The public has two weeks to comment. The regulators say california has been doing a good job and hope to keep the states overall conservation at 22 or better. Learning more information about the gilroy family killed in a plane crash in bakersfield. Coming up, how theyre being remembered by friends and family. 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