About, yet. A very wet weekend across the bay area, nearing an end, but not without one last downpour. Tonight, aces some celebrate the muchneeded rainfall, others are on alert. Good evening, im ken wayne and im heather holmes. We begin our storm watch coverage with look at our stormtracker 2 radar where you can see an awful lot of green. North bay got the most. Mill valley received six inches of rain. We were almost dry days ago, this, the Russian River, prompting some advisories in the north bay, a Flash Flood Watch that was supposed to expire two hours ago has been extended until 9 00 tonight. . The sierra winter storm warning is in effect until 4 00 tomorrow morning. Kristina and katie have been out in the elements, we begin are our meteorologist, mark tomio with mosh more on the Flash Flood Watch. Rainfall totals adding up over the sequence of days across Northern California. Especially north bay. As you can see, remember we were talking about the system back on wednesday and thursday and rainfall totals in fact since thursday. They are adding up. Santa rosa, over 6 inches. Richmond, same deal and out toward concorde and San Francisco adding up as well over three inches of rainfall. As you mentioned, the Flash Flood Watch extended for parts of the north bay, for marine, sonoma county, rainfall has been picking up over the past hour. We see there u thaw on the radar and there you can see the coverage for San Francisco and right around san raphael and richmond. Here is the wider perspective, around sonoma county, light to moderate. All of the action has been moving out to the east. Out toward brentwood, livermore, one cell outside of livermore around livermore producing rainfall rates a third of an inch an hour as we come in tighting. Take a closer inspection of all of the activity in this region. Difficult travel on 580, right now, there is the radar loop, once moving rapidly across the bay. About an hour ago toward the Golden Gate Bridge in the east bay and inland valleys and off shore, upstream, the final stage of our system. Basically over the past few days, we have had a garden hose of moisture being directed toward the bay area. It will finally be on the move. The key impact of our forecast as we het into monday. From mark, we go to katie where the Flash Flood Watch has been extended. Reporter the flood watch has been extended. What im about to show you is exciting from a bay area stand point. This is the Russian River. Its raging. Its an important bram for bay area water supply. We have video to show you how much the storm has increased the rivers level and hopefully area reservoirs. Mother nature delivers. Reporter this is our spot and so are the people that live along the Russian River. It looks really cool under the bridge. Reporter rejoicing over rushing water. Thank god. Its a welcome site, obviously to see the water. Reporter she, like brad cher wood with the water agency has been watching the river levels closely. Reporter he marvels at the difference this water has made. John fowler showed us the river levels, then. It was flowing about 40 cubic feet per second, a mere trickle, but by today, 9,000 cubic feet per second. The most important picture we have seen yet. I dont think this is enough rain, yet. And she is right. This is what we hope is the beginning of a phenomenal february. Unfortunately, the drought is still on. Reporter brad says we are still way behind. Need several more storms and at least six inches to even reach the brought levels from 1977. But, for now, this storm brings some relief. Happy fish, happy ranchers, happy water guys, bring it on. Reporter now, as the storm continues to bring rain, the Russian River is expected to crest tomorrow. Still a long way from flood stage, which is 23 feet. We are at about eight feet currently. The reason we are seeing flooding across the north bay, im told that the ground is the dryest it has been in 120 years. So, simply the rain cannot saturate into the ground quick enough. We are seeing a lot of runoff across roadways and the flood watch if effect for some of the smaller streams and creeks here in the north bay. That goes until 9 00 tonight. Ktvu channel 2 news. From the rising creeks and rivers to flooded roads to Power Outages, this storm is making its mark. Kristina is in berkeley with the problems she found there, kristina . Reporter this neighborhood we are in has seen their own power outage. Electricity has been restored. There are others across the bay area that feed a little more help. A big flash of Power Outages hit the bay area. Ktvu cameras captured this transformer blowing out in San Francisco. Adding to the list of areas where pg e crews worked to restore electricity. Its water may be one mans hobby, but its another ones headache in mill valley. This is a business killer. Reporter the 2 00 am club usually see as big sunday crowd instead of empty bar stools and sandbags out front. I think it has been an issue for decades. Its something when the tide coincides with the heavy rains, we get the flooding. Reporter water is collecting outside of a handful of businesses intread of draining to a creek that is full. Infrastcture is what it is. What are we going to do . Its nature. Reporter these Business Owners want the city to fix the issue for good so they can get back to work without worrying about the rain. As this continues, it will be taking a chunk out of my business. Reporter they are crossing their fingers electricity wont go out. The Business Owners say they stand to lose thousands today and tomorrow, they say it will be a waiting game to determine whether or not they will open. As far as electricity goes, cruises will be working to restore any elicoricety that has been out in affected areas. Rain has made for a slow and dangerous weekended on bay area roads. Are you looking live at interstate 80 in berkeley. Cars have been moving slower than usual. Traffic heading west is moving slowly. Want to take to you a map in our traffic center. The red and yellow lines indicate where traffic is stopped or moving slowly. Travelers at San Francisco airport faced delayed as wind andrin were on the roadways. Two planes landing simultaneously have been reduced to one landing at a time. A spokesman said as of an hour ago 91 flights had been canceled and most delays in the 6090 minute range. One frustrated passenger we spoke with said miscommunication prevented him from making his life. Extremely frustrating. I got a call, there wasnt a human being that called me. I couldnt reach them, when i did, they gave me the wrong information. Reporter oakland and san jose reports were not reporting any weatherrelated delays. In the sierra rain became snow in higher elevations. Donor summit, 7200 feet, where as much as four feet of new snow has fallen. Caltran has chain restrictions in place for all but fourwheel drive vehicles. On interstate 80, caltran is screening westbound trucks in truckie to make sure drivers are carrying chains. This weekend, as we remain on storm watch, viewers have been sending us pictures of flooding and other effect says of the rain. This creek in lake sonoma is overflowing. The photographer said it went from ankle deep to completely washed out in four hours. I want to show you another picture. A spa owner sent us this picture, trying to protect building from rising waters. The last picture comes to us from our social media director, michelle, showing us this flooding. One of many, many in the north bay. We would like to see your weather photos. Our storm watch coverage continues throughout the hour, well check back in with our meteorologist, mark, coming up at 5 20, 5 30 and 5 45. Coming up in a few minutes at 5 15, allie has shown how rain has exposed a new problem on the new bay bridge. Well get another look at the live conditions coming up in the next half hour. A major change in the way the government recognizes same sex marriage is getting major criticism another example of the Obamas Administration imposing their will on the state. A federal announcement expected tomorrow could mean for same sex couples across the country. A healthy giraffe shot and killed and fed to the lions at a zoo. Outrage tonight and why zoo officials said they had to do it. A deadly crash in the south bay. The charges to the driver of this vehicle. With bacon inside. R that makes burs. Get bacon in your burger. 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San jose police say an officer shot and wounded a man accused of stealing a car. A man was carrying a shotgun outside of a home and demanding that someone inside give him the keys to a vehicle. After a short vehicle chase, officers confronted the man on white road. Thats where an officer fired his weapon and hit the man at least one. Police describe the mans wounds as serious, but not life threatening. Oakland police are investigating a homicide on a 69yearold woman. Police say she died 10 50 saturday morning at a home on 103rd avenue near plymouth street. Authorities have not released the victims name or the cause of her death. Turning back to our storm watch coverage. This weekends rain has exposed a new problem on the new bay bridge. Turns out it leaks. The large storm is sending rain into places on the 6. 4 billion bridge where it shouldnt be, reporter it was tough to see the road on the bay bridge this morning. Over the weekend a problem underneath the road became very visible to caltrans engineers. We have found some leaks. We are still determining how many. Reporter since friday, engineers have been working to pinpoint the source of the leak. They appear to be along the barrier well. The concern is that water is getting into the rail and it is dripping down on the bolts that connect the barrier well to the road deck. It has been having prims all along. Its not new. Reporter caltran officials came under fire earlier this year for problems with bolts in the new eastern span. Drivers this morning wonder what may be wrong with the 6 billion project. Everything will have issues at first. Gordon said core corrosion shouldnt be a problem, it has a protective coating inside. This is water. This is you weatherwise it the best you can. Drivers agree. Everything needs like a test run, i think, in and we havent had rain in so long. Im not really worried about it. Reporter caltran said a team of engineers will be taking a closer look this afternoon. They plan on providing another update about the situation in the morning. More details on the new spans many problems. The bad bolts were discovered and repaired. A few weeks ago, several engine easterlies testified to state lawmakers that they also had issues with concrete. Steel decked on a tower. They say they were pressured to finish the bridge on time, but even with the issues, they insist the bridge is safe for operation. Its amazing how quickly things can change. We still have the drought, but we are talking about flooding as well. Still some rain in the forecast. Another day of impressive rain totals for parts of the bay area. South bay kind of missing out on this. San jose not reporting much at all over the past 24 hours. These are 24hour totals, santa rosa. San francisco, over an inch, trace amounts mountainview. But out toward boulder creek. 1. 6. As far as the Flash Flood Watch that is in place, right now, extended up in the north bay until 9 00 this evening. An update on live stormtracker. You can you see what is happening. The final phase of this system pushing across Northern California and across the bay area. Rainfall rates have increased. Up in the north bay, nothing too significant. At least nothing too extreme. It looks like the steadier rain outside 0 the east of santa rose could. Toward again allen. Around the coast, half moon bay, San Franciscos ocean beach, around the bay itself. Look at the yellows and reds towards the east. There you go for south San Francisco. And downtown, sliding the maps to the south, more rainshowers to record. Right around san jose, rain developing there. Toward livermore, moderate and heavier cells around Discovery Bay. You can pick out toward brentwood and Discovery Bay picking up the most intense rainfall at last check. For tonight, we have this, periods of rain. There is a chance of a thunderstorm, unstable air moving in with this piece of energy that could trigger a thunderstorm. Heres our live camera, all of the cloud cover out there and raindrops have been moving into the picture. Tomorrow, morning clouds we are going to gradually clear out the clouds. You have been hearing a lot about rivers with all of the moisture setting up. Northern california extended back toward hawaii. We are getting hawaiis moisture. This is pretty much the same storm, setting up camp off shore. Tonight, periods of rain, tomorrow, as i mentioned, the morning chance with the sun cloud mix into the afternoon hours. Here is our forecast models. Rainshowers out there, once again, the possibility of a thunderstorm, but look what happens tomorrow morning. Just some clouds out there, the chance of a sprinkle or light shower and then into the afternoon hours, skies becoming partly cloudy by 3 00 or 4 00 and thats all reflected in your forecast for your monday. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s, low to mid60s for afternoon highs and here is a look ahead. Your fiveday forecast, there is a chance for monday morning, partly cloudy on tuesday, just a slight chance of a shower on wednesday. More clouds by thursday and friday coming up in our next weather update, well update the winter storm in the sierras and well have the fiveday forecast with the weekend always in view and we have the chinese forecast to talk about. Six People Killed on a busy freeway. Why Officials Say this horrible crash never should have happened. Why some say russian officials are not doing enough to protect americans at the olympics. The killing of a jury giraffe in front of paytons at a zoo. Why the zoo said they had to do it. [ male announcer ] start engine. Accelerate. Shift. Shift. And shift again. Through all eight speeds of a transmission connected to more standard horsepower than its german competitors. 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Russian authorities describe security efforts as a ring of steel around sochi. Southern california congressman adam shift said the u. S. Is not getting the kind of cooperation he would like from the russians, but acknowledged there is a cultural barrier. I think as a matter of russian pride, they dont want to share that. As a matter of disclosing their methods to us. They dont want to share, but it means we are less effective in protecting our people. Mike mccall thinks there is a high probability there will be an attack outside of the so called ring of steel and said such terrorists would treat such an attack as a victory. You are talking about an area of the world where suicide bombers go off all of the time. The eyes of the world are on the olympics and the extremists know this. Meanwhile, vladimirputeen seemed relaxed as he greeted the public. A speed cater has become the first openly gay athlete to win gold at the olympics. She posted this selfy this afternoon on our facebook page, which is filled with a lot of comments, she won the 3,000 meter rice and she will compete in other races coming up. One of seven openly gay athletes competing at sochi. University of california president spoke today to the press about gay rights and russia. I think our president , president obama has been very clear over time about the United States and our position with respect to human values and human rights and freedom of expression and tolerance and diversity. These are things we hold dear in the United States. And this is an area where we have some disagreements with russia. She was picked to head the delegation. Animal rights activists out raged over the dill killing of a giraffe. The 18monthold was killed with a shotgun in front of visitors, including children at the copenhagen zoo. He was given a public autopsy and fed to the lions. The zoo said that the giraffe was part of an International Breeding program and genes were overrepresented and was killed to prevent in breeding. Our storm watch coverage continues, next. We are live along