San cruise, san mateo and parts of the dumbarton bridge and san mateo. Pretty heavy rain around Half Moon Bay. Drier areas have moved in from clearlake, middle town over to st. Helena and calistoga and pleasanton and livermore and over to the peninsula. That is heavy rain, palo alto and right over Half Moon Bay, and stretching southward towards the santa cruz and moving into the santa cruz coast area and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Dry air around hollister and gilroy. The wind has picked up to 50 Miles Per Hour. 50s on the temps. Youre seeing the strong easterly breeze. That will only get worse in the next couple of hours. The strongest gusts to the south. We have a wind advisory. A day of wind and rain. A strong system. Not much of a break until the next system comes in which i think will be on wednesday now. Rain and wind and 60s on your temps today. Christien kafton is down at the reservoir. It is not supposed to this full. Reporter not at all. Thats why one of the outlets is full open. You can see how much water is being dumped right now. People watching what is happening here in morgan hill. The concern is of course with more rain in the forecast, that dam could go over and the water could pure over the spillway nearby. The officials from the Water District have been dumping water as fast as they can into the reservoir. It is not enough to offset the rain we have seen come down in the last couple of days and weeks. The outlet here fully open since january 9th, dumping 400 cubic feet per second. The concern of course is the dam seismic safety. It could cause an earthquake on the nearby fault. I talked with the Water District. They say although that earthquake is a remote possibility, it is one of which theyre very aware and theyre taking every precaution to get the water oust the dam. At last check it was over 99 capacity. Could top 100 capacity at some point in time today. The retro fit is three years away. We are keeping an eye on the water level here as they are dumping water out of Anderson Reservoir into coyote creek. The concern for neighbors of course is that it could cause flooding in the area. There is concern about flooding. Theres concern about that water coming over the spillway. And of course the ongoing concern over the seismic stability of the dam here at Anderson Reservoir, steve. What theyre concerned about is theyre releasing a tremendous amount of what could be construed as freshwater. Thats just disappearing right now because they have no other alternative. Right . Reporter right. Of course thats the problem. That was one of the questions that i had asked as well. All of this freshwater after five years of drought, it is heart breaking to see this freshwater dumped out to the bay. Thats what they have to do. The dam is attica passity and theyre trying to get it down close to the 68 capacity. If they can get it down there, they say that would take as many as four, possibly nine weeks. So depending how our weather is looking, it will take some time to get it back down to the water levels we can get the water levels down to where officials would like to see them. Thank you, christien kafton. Nice job down at Anderson Reservoir and morgan hill. Lets head over to sal who has an update on our traffic. Yeah. We have highway 17, steve, that is a concern this morning. We have new pictures of that road. As cars drive through. It has been raining actually i think i said new pictures. These are recent but brandnew pictures of the work done there and a driving shot of the traffic. You can see it has been put on one side of the road. This is usually southbound but we have traffic going north and south as they do the slide repair. I want you to know that the commute here is slow as it would be. Were not getting a friday break. And its still going to be slow by gets better by the time you reach the summit. We have a fresco user that sent us this. This is from randy turner. Happened to be driving somewhere and caught this for us. The bumper of the car came off. No serious injuries here, by the way. This is the kind of crash that has been happening a lot during the windy and rainy weather. Lets go to 880 north and southbound. The camera is on a Tall Building across from the coliseum. Shaky as you might imagine. Not as bad as you might think. But steve says the rain will be moderate to heavy today. This is a look at the bay bridge westbound. A 15 to 20 minute right. At 7 06, lets go back to the desk. Operators of the oroville dam says the facility should withstand the next round of storms. We are learning what may have contributed to the damage of the main spillway and the dire consequences if the system fails. Four days after a crater first appeared in the concrete chute on the spillway, it blamed rainoff from recent rains for eroding and undermining the spillway, causing a section to collapse. Meanwhile repair crews are continuing their work to patch the break within the emergency spillway. Weve got crews working 24 hours a day out on the emergency spillway, placing large rocks, gravel and aggregate in there and filling it in with a slurry mixture of cement to stop further erosion. Crews are slowing the release of water down the main spillway to ease the burden. The Associated Press has uncovered a letter from 2011 where the state warped federal regulators, if it failed, there would not be enough time to evacuate downstream communities. They would have no choice but to draw to Higher Ground and prepare to treat victims. If youre heading up to tahoe or reno over the weekend, bring your chains and a full tank of gas. The storm is expected to dumb several feet of new snow over the weekend. It was falling at two inches an hour. No chain requirements on interstate 80 or 50 right now. But that is likely to change. The snow is expected to fall in a few hours from now and will last all the way through the weekend. So Road Conditions could change at any time. The grapevine will get a lot of snow today too if youre heading south. This is welcome news for skiers and snowboarders. This is expected to be a busy weekend, the long weekend with president s day. According to reports, many ski resorts are experiencing record breaking crowds this season and they still have a couple of months to go. A reminder that you can download our free ktvu weather app for the latest on the upcoming storms. It includes a live weather radar and extended forecast as well. The time is 7 08. Southern california also getting hit by a big storm. Said to be the biggest there in years. We will have a live report on the conditions in Southern California and explain why there are concerns about mudslides there. Good morning. We have traffic that is not doing very well in some places. In other spots, its not bad. And that has a lot to do with where it is raining right now. We will let you know. Rain and wind on your friday forecast. What about the weekend . I think rain returns quick on sunday. We will have more on that coming up. At 7 11, were staying on top of the bay area storm making for a tricky morning commute. Live Storm Tracker 2 is the big picture on the left, showing you the rain moving through the region. Lets focus on what is happening up in the air. At sfo, there are 90 cancellations in all and 24 delays. Thats as of a few minutes ago. There is a Ground Delay Program in effect from right now on through midnight. In san jose, the airport is reporting 34 cancellations and two delays. Story the same in oakland with 32 cancellations reported and five delays. Make sure to check your flight with your airline before you head to the airport. Pack your patience. We will move to Southern California. The latest storm system is expected to hammer that area. It could be the heaviest rain that the region has seen in several years. Flooding isnt the only concern. There is a possibility of mudslides and rock slides in some of the high risk burn zones there. Mario ramirez joins us live in Ventura County with more on what is about to hit Southern California. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. By the time this is done, it definitely will be the strongest storm of the season. To give you an idea how much rain we have seen so far in the first month of 2017, we saw more rain than we do in an average year. Behind me you see all of the damage. This is one of the homes that was nearly destroyed. It was red tagged after a mudslide here. Falling hillsides is what the signs read and thats what residents are concerned about. Three homes on this street alone were nearly buried in late 2014. More than two years later and they still havent recovered after debris from that charred Mountain Side became oversaturated and gave way. 150 homes are under voluntary evacuation orders. Some areas could be looking at record setting rainfall totals. As much as six inches expected in coastal and valley areas of los angeles. Here in Ventura County, northwest of l. A. , theres a wind advisory, a Flash Flood Watch and a High Surf Advisory in effect through tomorrow. Over the next 24 hours, looking at a lot of weather activity in the area. Reporting from Ventura County, we will send it back to you. Thank you, mario. 7 13. Lets help people get out of the door. We had problems early and that accident cleared. And things have returned to somewhat normal which is slow on a day like today, driving into San Francisco. The rain and the wind are going to make it a challenge. Lets go to the bay bridge toll plaza first and show you the backup of about 20 to 25 minutes. It has been raining off and on. Sometimes it lets up and people drive fast and we have more accidents and then theres slow traffic again. San mateo bridge traffic has been heavy and slow. Steve said the rain was moving through here a little while ago. I believe it because we saw a lot of slow traffic in the area. Were also looking at slow traffic on the dumbarton approach. I can show you the traffic will be busy approaching the dumbarton. Not too bad on the peninsula. That is lighter heading down to the valley. 7 14, lets bring steve in right now. Sal, its been a slow day, you know, feet up on the desk. Sure. Kind of like the maytag repairman. Exactly, sir. Thank you. Our system has arrived and producing wind and rain. The heaviest rain has been to the south of us. Santa cruz mountains south. There are drier air coming in with the strong southeast wind. Some areas are getting just the wind and not rain. Gusts to 50 Miles Per Hour. Already some 40 plus Miles Per Hour around gilroy and 70 plus down around big sur. Wet friday commute. Heaviest rain will to be the south. Decent bands going through right now. It has been picking up the last few hours. It will start to decrease later here. Very strong system here. I mean, it is in all levels of the at moss fire. Originally we want to take this down to Southern California. They will get their fair share. If you have a barometer at home, it continues to drop rapidly. Bursts of moderate to heavy rain. It is heavier up to clearlake. Now it picks up again over in the east bay from concord, walnut creek, by mount diablo and heading towards skirting brentwood and antioch, back over to 580, 680, towards livermore and pleasanton. And another line back over to hayward, union city, fremont. Over the san mateo bridge, over to foster city, san bruno, daly city, Half Moon Bay, and on 280, that is heavy. Right along the line here going into the Santa Cruz Mountains, right along highway 9, maybe skyline and highway 1 as well. There is drier air coming in around san jose, los altos, morgan hill to gilroy because of the downsloping. High wind warning is out south about watsonville. A wind advisory here. Winter weather advisory for the sierra the winter storm warnings are in Southern California and the sierra. 50s on the temps. We continue to get this strong southeasterly breeze. San jose had gusts to 30. Now at 25. It is working its way up to santa clara valley. Breezy to windy at times. A strong low continues to deepen here. Sends bands in throughout the day. Not much of a break here. The next system is racing along. I think it will be here on sunday. Wont be great here between now and saturday. But then it really cranks up monday and tuesday. There will be heavy rain to the north. So something to keep in mind, especially as we head towards monday and tuesday of next week. There could be impressive totals. Winter storm warning is out for the mountains. San bernardino and riverside. Flash flood watches are out. If you are traveling, steve, is there going to be snow over the grapevine . Yes, there will be snow. I get it all the time, frank. Yes there will be this time, 50sand 60s. A little bit of a break saturday afternoon. Then the rain moves back in sunday. And then heavy rain monday and tuesday, gasia and frank. That is a good one there. Nice. Very good. Thank you, steve. Pam cook is back with stocks and a look at wall street on this friday, the last day of the week. All right. Yes. Its been quite a week. Craft foods among the stocks to watch today. It tries to work out a merger deal. And apple stock hit an alltime high this week. It is at 135 a share. The numbers headed down this morning on the opening bell after five Straight Days of record closes. Little bit of a mixed close yesterday. Checking in on the numbers right now. The dow jones down just about a quarter of a percent. Still at 20576 though. Nasdaq just about flat, 5814. And the s p 500 down a little bit as well. President trump heading to South Carolina today. This is a live look at air force one this morning. He is headed to North Charleston for the unveiling of boeings first 787 dream liner jet. The white house says the visit will give the president a chance to celebrate a huge milestone for the thousands of workers at the boeing plant. That visit also comes just two days after boeing workers rejected an effort to unionize that 787 dream liner plant. Apple moving its annual developer conference back to san jose. After a 14year run in San Francisco. The high tech event attracts thousands of people around the world. This years conference will be held at the Mchenry Convention Center in san jose in early june. Apple says the time was right to bring the event back to san jose where it was first held from 1989 to 2002. Facebook recently announced its developer event will be held at the Mchenry Convention Center as well. Last year they held it at fort mason in San Francisco. The man who helped connect the world to social media is now trying to keep the world together. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared a lengthy letter explaining his vision for the company. He talked about building a Global Community and moving away from the political trend of nationalism in the u. S. And abroad. He also talked about a plan to use Artificial Intelligence to crack down on terrorist propaganda and fake news. Facebook was one of the companies criticized recently because of fake news and trying to crack down and separate and make it more clear to users what is news and what is maybe an advertisement. Okay. Thank you, pam. 7 19. Next how he made it from the baseball mound to the billboard charts. [music] the counting crows. You know that adam was a cal guy, right . In quays you didnt know, im here to tell you. 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Millions who would be affected live in 11 states that are not near the mexican border. Its an 11page document according to the ap that calls for the militarization. If it is implemented, governors in the affected states would have the final approval on whether troops under their control participate. How this affects california, if this affects california, were still working to learn that. It is breaking news. We will get you more as soon as we have it. 7 24. From the baseball month under to singing in nashville, barry is making the most of his latest career choice. [music] [music] he has become the first cy young winner to make it to the billboard charts. No secrets sold a thousand copies in the first week. It ranked 39 on billboard. Bernie williams also made it on the charts. James taylor. Yeah. Spring training is in full swing. Joe fonzi is getting to enjoy a little sunshine, previewing the