San jose reporting cancellations. The overall headline, if you have a flight today or expecting loved ones coming in, check the status of your flight specifically before you make that wet, windy trek to the airport. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im gasia mikaelian. And im dave clark. The weather is our big story. Lets go straight to Steve Paulson. Steve. You know, honestly very optimistic, positive person. I think were in hurt here. Hurt. Going over the next couple of days. Yes. Honestly. This rain is relentless now. Steady rain can be a good thing but when youve had too much, a steady rain is not the good thing. Weve been hammered since the beginning of the month. Some of the heavier rain towards san jose and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Some pretty heavy rain moved through and still moving through parts of the peninsula. Half moon bay, woodside, looks like even over to palo alto. There is a pretty good line. That is heavy rain right there coming on shore. It looks like around stenson beach. There is a heavily line around highway 29 as well. Some are eye opening here. Craig is very good about keeping an eye on the napa river, especially at points north. Napa county, 9 and a half inches of rain since 1 00 a. M. Saturday, january 7th. I mean, theres going to be more than that as we go into thursday. Hence the Flash Flood Warning for the napa river and the Russian River as well. Thats at johns beach guerneville. Blizzard warning. Forget it. Theyre done up in the sierra. Three to four feet being measured at heavily already. The wind will be a factor tonight and tomorrow. Rain, heavier rain, possibility of thunderstorms convectant area right back here that will sweep in tonight and tomorrow. Another system brushes us wednesday night and into thursday morning. Then we will get a break. Not until late thursday and into friday. 50s on the temperatures. I think its sold out. Would you say for some here. Yeah. I would say, steve. And the east bay commute really is busy. Also the south bay will not be denied when it comes to slow traffic. Lets start off with the bay bridge. People want to know what that is looking like. That is slow. The carpool lane slowing down as well. A lot of people stuck on highway 24. Lets get to that. Westbound 24 from walnut creek to oakland, it can take you an hour to do it. It usually takes you 15 minutes with no traffic. This morning its much worse than that. There was a crash right after the tunnel. But the traffic is very slow. Slow traffic on the nimitz free down to fremont. Dumbarton bridge not bad this morning. Highway 17, even though it has reopened, weve had a lot of slow traffic there on 17 driving from santa cruz over the valley. Now, another storm moves in today. People in the north bay worried about rising flood waters along the Russian River. Alex savidge is in Sonoma County this morning with a look at the flooding damage. Alex. Reporter yeah. Good morning, sal. Certainly this is disconcerting to say the least for people in the guerneville area. We are off of highway 116. You can see what we have here. A very heavy rain falling right now. And this is certainly the last thing that they need up here with the Russian River already a couple feet above flood stage. Were just off of drake road here. You can see entire neighborhoods already inundated with the rises waters that began to rise with the weekend storms. Now we can show you the scene here from this from this area. People, they took to their canoes and kayaks to try to get across town. The water waist deep in many spots. A lot of folks are quite concerned. The river is expected to crest at about 36 feet. That should happen sometime possibly tomorrow. And obviously with all of this rain were getting right now, it could do that even soo a lot of concern here in town about a thousand or so people several thousand people, i should say, were advised that maybe they might want to evacuate some of the lowlying areas. The water rising in certain spots. Some people say they are preparing to leave, packing up, just in case. Were right at the edge and holding out until until it takes us over. So were parked at the neighbors. And were ready to go. Reporter now, Sonoma County officials so far are describing the flooding here in the guerneville area as moderate flooding. Of course there is a Flood Warning in effect here in this area for the next day or so. And there is, you know, obviously the concern about the fact that the river is expected to rise at least another two feet. And, again, it is expected to crest maybe sometime later on tomorrow. We will bring you back out here to this live picture here. This is in guerneville off of highway 116. And you can see this neighborhood, a good portion of it, is under water. And the concern is that this flooding will spread through other neighborhoods here in guerneville. That is why there is some serious concern about all of the heavy rain coming down. And a lot more rain on the way. Thank you, alex. Search and rescue teams down in the south bay have been busy saving people trapped by rising waters. I would just step right up on the roof, guys. Uys. The San Jose Fire Department made four storm related water rescues just this week. We will bring janine de la vega back into the coverage who is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains with the threats in the south bay. Now to the north where public works crews in napa county say its just a matter of time before more mud and rocks spread out on to the trail in st. Helena. Its a big deal. Allie rasmus has a look around the bay area today. Thats right. Napa county authorities have closed deer park road to pope street. You can see from the video exactly why. Lets show you the first shot where you see the heavy Construction Equipment moving and clearing a landslide that happened in st. Helena yesterday afternoon. Now, the work crews doing some of that work were able to clear the roadway. And the rocks and debris were moved out of the way by yesterday evening. However, the road remains closed because of a concern that the hillside above the road could continue to come down during the Rainy Weather today and later this week. Its going to come down. And when, we dont know. For safety purposes, we will have to determine what we can do to remove it. Reporter now, along with landslides, Power Outages will be an issue today because of the potential of more trees toppling over, bringing downpour lines. Pg e say the crews are prepared for the Rainy Weather. No widespread outages to report as of last night. The most heavily impacted area is in the north bay with 845 customers without power. East bay has 292 customers. Peninsula, 209. San from and the south bay only have three dozen customers without power. The majority of the outages are from overnight. Its important to mention that king tides are expected today and later this week. Projected to reach 7 feet in some areas. That could lead to coastal flooding along the embarcadero and San Francisco and parts of alameda, marin county. Any low lying area with the king tides could cause more problems. And steve says heavy rain tonight. Right. Problems still ahead. Thank you, allie. Dont forget on the ktvu weather app you can find live radar, the Current Conditions and the very latest on your weather forecast. Just search for ktvu weather to download the weather app. Too much rain to handle here. But the snow keeps piling up in the sierra. At 7 30, a look how much snow has fallen from the latest storm and how much could fall the rest of the week. First the cost of raising a child is going up. Just how much you will need to make sure that the babies are paid for until the age of 17. And that number does not even include college. Its very slow in many areas. Part of it is because of the wet weather and part of it is because of earlier accidents. We will tell you more about the morning commute when we come back. Rain is picking up. Some areas have already picked up over 2. Rainfall rates picking up all the way to morgan hill. A couple more days before we get a break. I use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. You are free to go. Tide and downy together. Plumping surface cells for a dramatic transformation. Without the need for fillers. With olay, you age less. So you can be ageless. Olay ageless. Weyour most extraordinarybut withmoments happenses when you feel small. 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I want to show you the traffic on 80 westbound will be slow this morning coming just past the carquinez bridge. As we move down to the Silicon Valley commute, the dumbarton bridge is looking okay. But san jose commute is very slow getting into that west valley. Sunnyvale and cupertino bound. Just a lot of slow traffic. Of course highway 17 is very, very slow coming down into the valley. Even though the lanes are open, its going to be a very slow commute. 7 13. Lets go to steve. All right, sal. Thank you, sir. Our system has arrived. We have a long way to go. Per snow, a couple feet already been measured. Want to mention that. There have been astronomical amounts of snow initylyand greece. This might be our turn, especially up in the sierra. Blizzard warning is out. Now, over us were getting moderate rain. It seems to be picking up again from san jose, down to morgan hill. Also on the peninsula. That you get the yellow there, that is moderate rain. Redwood city have had some. To the north, watch of marin county. I will get out of the way. Right there. Going through. It looks like sausalito, over to tiburon and the san rafael bridge. That is a burst of heavy rain. Now getting heavy rain. When you get the dark green, this is not moving much. This is a concern here. Highway 29. Also up to cobb, calistoga, back over to hillsberg. Some reports of very heavy rain. Greta is in middle town. The rain gauge at 23 inches. A mild 49. You might double that amount here because the heaviest rain is still on its way. Flash Flood Warnings are out. Russian river, guerneville, Johnsons Beach, napa town. Thankfully they have the bypass because it has been working overtime. I think it will continue to work overtime. Blizzard warning, forget it. Theyre done. This is a legit whiteout condition up there. Gusts over the passes at 100 Miles Per Hour and already two to four feet of snow has been observed. Heavenly has had three to four. North shore two and a half feet. Wind speed picking up to 45 to 50 tonight. That is a concern for the tree thats are saturated. The heavier rain looks to be up to the north. The evening commute could be a real total bear, if you will, because there will be very heavy rain. Then another system swings in here Late Wednesday, thursday. That will keep the beat going until about thursday afternoon. Friday, saturday and sunday, do look to get like a break. Believe me, were going to need it. Until then, we have rain all the way into thursday. And then we will see a break on the weekend. Thank you, steve. E. Taking a look at the opening bell. Start of the trading day on wall street. And pam cook back in the studio with us with todays money business. Pam. A little bit of a mixed start to the day. Want to look at the numbers really quickly. The dow down a little bit. S p 500 down as well. Right now the nasdaq now turned up. Kind of in a waiting pattern until we see the new president elect donald trump. Theyre talking about earning season coming in after he is president. A waiting season now. Yahoo says the ceo meyer will step down when the sale to verizon goes through. Verizon said to acquire the yahoo brand and email server along with websites and mobile apps in the 4. 8 billion deal. Yahoo said the remaining businesses which is largely made up of an investment in the chinese ecommerce site would change its name. However the verizon deal not yet closed following two major Security Breaches involving yahoo. Toyota and General Motors also making business headlines this morning. In our fox Business News bureau working on those stories. Lets check in with hillary vaughn. Good morning, hillary. What are we hearing from toyota. Reporter good morning. Toyota announced investing 10 billion over the next five years in the u. S. Why are they bringing it up at the Detroit Auto Show . Because trump targeted them among other Car Companies saying if you dont make the Toyota Corolla in the u. S. , you will pay a big border tax to bring it across from mexico. So they emphasized their plans to invest in the u. S. And they also debuted some changes to the best selling car in america, which is their toyota camry. It is also the most made in america car according to cars. Com. Theyre going for a longer, leaner, more sporty look. This is all a part of their plan to show president elect donald trump that theyre serious about investing in u. S. Jobs and in the u. S. Manufacturing industry. All right. Very interesting. More were hearing more and more from the Car Companies regarding that same topic. Thank you, hillary. From our fox business bureau. Thanks, pam. Also parents, its not your imagination. The cost of raising a child has gone up. Thank you. According to the department of agriculture, it will cost you 233,000 from the time they are born to the time they are ready to graduate from high school. That breaks down to about 14,000 per year. And the cost of the child goes up if they head off to college. That of course varies depending on where they go. On average, College Expenses are up 3 from last year. And that could be one reason why Credit Card Debt is up. The amount that consumers charged in november, the fastest pace in three months. It charged 24 billion. How much. 24 billion. Some of that could be college debt. Yes, it could. Thank you, pam. Confirmation hearings for Donald Trumps cabinet on capitol hill. Up more, what to expect from heating hearings. Taking a live look at Storm Tracker 2. Green as far as the eye can see. This should really be the story the next couple of days. Were in no way done with the bay area storm that has been making its presence known since well before the weekend. Our Steve Paulson is monitoring Storm Tracker 2. We will have the weather update in a moment. Take a look at the live picture. This is what you are seeing and feeling if you are in downtown truckee. Still on the streets. More coming down. Cars buried in snow. If you have a plan to go skiing or snowboarding, stay tuned to what steve has to say. The timing here could be tricky. Thats a live picture, right. Yep. The time is 7 22 tonight in chicago, president obama will deliver his farewell address. Thousands of people stood in zero degree weather saturday to get free tickets to the speech. President obama will make the speech at the same venue where he delivered his 2012 Election Night speech. He will look back on the accomplishments of the past eight years and also look ahead to the nations future. Well, happening right now, the confirmation hearing for senator Jeff Sessions nominated for attorney general has begun. Some democrats accuse of him being racist and worry about his concerns on immigration. Let me express a deep concern. There is so much fear in this country. I see it. I hear it. Particularly in the African American community. From preachers, from politicians, from everyday americans. Now, another controversial nominee wont require Senate Confirmation. The president elect is hiring his soninlaw, jared to be an advisor. Republican sten tore rand paul is among those calling for a delay in the repeal in the Affordable Care act until a substitute is ready. Some 20 million americans woul be left without insurance if it is repealed. The American College of physicians representing 148,000 doctors have sent letters to lawmakers saying no one should Lose Health Care as they make changes to the reform. Revealing a plan to prepare for possible steep cuts during the Trump Administration. Deep cuts are expected for health care and other public services. Trump has pledged to repeal the Affordable Care act which provides about 20 billion for health care for some 5 million californians. Trump has also said he will financially punish local governments that impede immigration enforcement. The state is projected to end the 20172018 budget year with an 11. 5 billion reserve. Workers at campuss around the state are on a oneday strike right now over wages. Here in the bay area, they are happening at uc berkeley, uc