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Next on news at six live doppler 7 shows rain saturating the bay area more than 5 inches in san francisco alone, spencer joins us with how this could act your plans tonight and has a look ahead it even more wet weather. now all that rain means flooding with rushing waters forcing emergency evacuations in the east bay while hundreds get trapped in their cars on flooded roads in san francisco. >> in the north bay where a fierce new year's eve storm means flooding and downed trees. >> right away that breaking news are relentless rain, a super soaker made it downright dangerous.

Several inches of rain. which is why you have the flash flood threat for several states. it's important to note earlier this week they had a lot of rain from the remnants of fred now you have two systems bringing a tremendous amount of rain saturating the ground. we talked about the high wind gusts it's not going to take much to bring trees and power lines down, which is why we're anticipating power outages. storm surge also going to be a concern. this area here, hamptons, nantucket, providence, talking 3 to 5 feet. but even around boston and down towards the jersey coast, still 1 to 3 feet of...

10 inches of rain, which will create significant flooding. those wind gusts in tidal areas and the surge, that will be a significant problem. we will also be expecting issues in the hudson valley. where you're talking about 8 to 10 inches of rain in the hudson valley, west chester, cat skills. we know what happens when we get that amount of rain, especially in a situation like this, where the ground is already saturated. creeks turn into raging rivers. during super storm sandy we saw entire towns carried away. so long island, hudson valley, capital district, as the storm moves north, even some...

Make that little bit of a curve back towards the west which is why we're thinking landfall is going to happen over long island. timing wise, thinking right around lunchtime on sunday. it will continue to push farther inland before then going back out to the east over the open atlantic. one thing we did notice in the last advisory that started to tick up was the winds forecast with this. the red area here, about 74 to 110 mile per hour wind gusts. look at this purple area here, including montauk, we're talking 110 mile per hour wind gusts. the other areas, 40 to 60 mile per hour winds that's en...