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Some slick roads and a very slow and dangerous evening commute. Take a look at our live drive time traffic map. You can see here a lot of red on 880, 580, the sunol grade, 101, 280. It is jammed up all over the bay area. The square icons that you see, thats where accidents have been reported. Lets take a look at a couple of our cameras. This is 880. You can see it is jammed up in both directions. Excuse me this is 80. Thats the University Avenue overcrossing there at the top of the screen. When you see traffic on that access road all the way to the left, you know it is a rough evening commute....

Flood waters needed to be rescued, after their car stalled out on this drenched road. The rohnert park expressway offlimits just west of highway 101 where the rain turned the street into a river. A close eye also being kept on the creeks in petaluma where the waters are rising. In novato, where a Flash Flood Watch is in effect. It was breezy. And, like everywhere else wet. Sandbag stations available for neighbors hoping to keep their homes dry. Further south in sausalito. Public works crews spent the afternoon chopping down trees that collapsed on glen drive. and if there were other trees that...

And furious. Hence, the flood watch, and then that Flood Warning on the Russian River which is the big story which well be following into the bay area weekend. Well get more with you in a little bit, bill. As bill just mentioned it has been a wild day of weather in the north bay. Thats where we sent ktvus john sasaki what joins us live from rohnert park. Reporter the north bay has been hammered by all this weather. Along with all that weather has come no shortage of problems. Around 11 00 a. M. A couple was driving in a toyota on Freestone Valley ford road. They came to a flood in the road and...

Everybody will get some today and also the wind is really cranking up before of a dynamic system. If you were stuck in the north bay, it was just coming down like crazy and is starting to lift back northward. For some there was about an inch but everything is starting to lift northward as the system moves through. There are pockets of a man fog on the coast in a breeze taking a. Kicking up. About these cloud cover will give way to rain but the system is off the coast beginning to move in. We will also get some cooler temperatures. As business in, there will be an intense light of rain developi...

By GREG JORDAN