we begin with abc 7 news weather anchor spencer christian who is tracking the storm. spencer? >> dan, you've seen the effects of the first wave of that storm that swept through earlier. now the second and stronger wave is just pushing on shore. here's live doppler 7. you can see it's hitting the north bay, pounding the north bay right now, and a lot of active weather offshore as well with widespread areas of moderate to heavy rainfall, heavy downpours, strong gusty wind. there's already localized flooding on the roadways because of the rain we've had already and there's more coming right now. the storm ranks 3 on the storm impact scale. a storm of strong intensity. damaging wind gusts are likely and flooding and downed trees may occur. here's a look at our forecast animation starting at 7:00 p.m. notice this storm is going to be with us for several hours. 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m., even up to 10:00 p.m. before it starts to move out of the north bay, but still the remainder of the bay area's getting pounded by the later effects of this storm. right around until 11:30 before we see a significant break and even after that another wave of stormy weather is on the way for

the overnight hours. now let's go over to meteorologist drew tuma for a look at our watches and warnings. drew? >> and spencer, we're not even into the worst of the storm yet and we already have flooding in a lot of areas in the north bay. so a flood warning is in effect for sonoma and marin county, where we've seen heavy rainfall, streams and small creeks are likely overflowing their banks. you can see that flood warning extending past 8:00 tonight. we do have a flood advisory for the heart of the region that includes san francisco, oakland, hayward, fremont, san mateo. this evening we'll likely see some issues with water on our roadways and rise in water levels on our small streams as well. similar setup in napa county as well, that lasting until 8:30 this evening. a flood watch or i should say a flash flood watch in effect for the entire region. so pretty much anyone is fair game to see flooding. not only that, these winds right now gusting near 50 to 60 miles an hour. when spencer comes back, he'll take a much closer look at this storm and also snow falling in the sierra in that accuweather

forecast in a few minutes, guys. >> drew, thanks so much. of course getting home in this storm is tough. bart briefly closed the civic center station today because of flooding and abc 7 reporter lyanne melendez is live from san francisco. lyanne, this is going to be a very challenging and tricky commute. >> reporter: well, this could have been a commuter disaster, dan. for about 30 minutes civic center station was closed because of a leak. that leak coming from the muni platform which sits right above the bart platform. but i can tell you crews were on it. they repaired that very quickly, just in time for the commute hour. now, the ferries, that's another sto sto story. already we've seen delays and cancellations because of winds and it's only going to get worse. now, i wouldn't be surpriseed if they canceled service but again, i'm not going to jinx it. so to tell you the truth, i think many people went home

early to avoid that possibility. in the meantime bart to the rescue because early this morning they decided to add cars to their trains, anticipating a bad weather commute evening. >> we were already planning to lengthen the trains we have with every available train car. so we're going to make sure we have as many cars as we can to serve the commuters. whether the ferries run or not. >> we want to make sure our operators are moving safely throughout the city to remind them to keep in mind that people are still walking around, crossing the street and be as safe as possible. >> so muni is also asking passengers to, you know, be patient. we're going to get you there. expect service on bart to be a little snow this evening. train operators have to slow down to make sure the wheels don't slip. in the meantime i have an update from ac transit. they have not increased the number of buses, we're told, but

they indicated that "adjustments can always be made." i'm live along the embarcadero, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >> staying flexible. thank you so much, lyanne. a downed tree slowed cars and buses near alamo square in san francisco around 4:00 this afternoon. abc 7 news was at fillmore and hay streets as firefighters cut off those branches. the tree delayed muni service in the area but everything is back to normal there. wind and waves. that's the story of this storm along the coast. these are the conditions. abc 7 news found at san francisco's ocean beach. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is there live trying to keep her hat on as usual. melanie? >> reporter: ama, i'm trying to keep it on because we lost it at 5:00, if anybody saw that. i have to tell you the conditions here are so rough. we had to move within the last hour. to show you that partial closure at great highway between lincoln

way and slope boulevard. we have some video of that closure to show you. we had to move because where we were standing live with that closure behind us our lens of the camera was just getting soaked. so you wouldn't be able to see it. so we have some video of that partial closure. that of course is storm-related. earlier today we saw one man who was here at ocean beach trying to hold on to his umbrella. there are signs here at ocean beach letting people know to absolutely stay off the beach and of course stay out of the water because of the dangerous conditions. still we have seen people out here luckily not in the ocean that we did hear that one surfer might have gotten into some trouble earlier today and almost need to be rescued. most of the people we've seen out here are either coming to check out the surf or they're out here walking their dogs or believe it or not, we even saw one whom to seemed to be doing some exercising out here. we did talk to one surfer

earlier who came to check out the surf and the conditions. here's what he had to say. >> you've got to be able to read the water. a good surfer knows how to read the water and the currents and the direction, the swells, all that. so once you learn all, that you dial in where you want to surf. >> reporter: that storm we had a couple weeks ago that was probably the biggest waves i've seen. they're definitely nasty-looking right now, though. >> and with all of the wind out here we've seen the sand also just blowing around. we began our day in san francisco in soma where we saw lots of construction workers who were putting in windows, a new high-rise, and had no choice but to work in the rain. back here now in ocean beach, we are getting absolutely pummeled by the wind and the rain. if you don't have to be outside, your best bet is to stay at home. in san francisco melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> thanks, melanie. >> good advice. here's a live look from behind

the wheel now. again, this is live. our photojournalist dean smith, our intrepid dean smith-s driving southbound on interstate 880 in oakland. >> not going very fast but you know, making his way along there. you can see the raindrops out there. 9 other direction actually looks like it's going a little bit better at this point. >> the slow going actually means safe going too. joining us on the phone is chp officer avu williams. >> yes. vue, thank you for joining us again. we spoke to you earlier this afternoon. how are things looking on the roads right now? >> good evening. we have the usual, i guess, if you will, slow commute going across the bay bridges and south on both the freeways, 101 and 280. fortunately, we are relatively crash-free right now and we're certainly hoping it stays that way when the rain hits later this evening. >> and vu, just highlight again for us the key, just driving safely in these kinds of

conditions. obviously, if you don't have to go out and drive don't. but if you have to or need to, what is the number one thing people need to keep in mind? >> correct. if you do have to hit the road, especially the freeway, the number one thing absolutely that you can do is just give yourself plenty of time to slow down and to make sure that you understand that it's going to take you a little bit longer to slow that vehicle down. and also if you're hitting some water it's very possible you that might hydroplane. just slow your speeds down and be extra extra careful look well ahead for any sort of flooded roadways you might encounter. >> off the top of your head any major spots you that guys are always concerned with when we're talking about a lot of water on the roadways and such? any notious places where you're just like oh, we're probably going to see a crash there tonight? >> specifically in that area of san francisco we do see certainly a lot of crashes on the 101 right around the paul avenue area, the silver avenue

area. 101 northbound where 101 meets with 280 it crosses there. we have some low spots. 101 northbound. where it comes to the transition on the bridge on 80. we do tend to see a little flooding there. and of course onto 280 extension we do also tend to see? pretty good crashes there because of the speeds that are involved. >> yeah. people come around that bend. okay. excellent. thank you very much. one last question very quickly. do you have extra staffing on nights like this or normal chp staffing? >> you know, we have, if you will, normal but we do definitely in the evenings we're staffed with quite a few officers. so we get out there and we certainly try to be available. but again, we can't be everywhere, so we ask the really take care. >> officer vu williams, we

appreciate the effort from all your officers out there. and you stay safe out there tonight as well. >> absolutely. >> thank you. more than 22,000 people in the bay area are without power right now. these are the latest numbers from pg&e. the hardest-hit area is now in the north bay with over 14,000 customers without electricity. more than 4,000 customers are without power on the peninsula. in the south bay 1700 customers are affected. and about 300 customers are impacted in the east bay. 63 customers are in the dark in san francisco, and 4,000 customers or so are in the dark on the central coast. those numbers are likely to change, probably go up as the wind and rain intensifies. you can see how widespread the outages are on this map from pg&e. it tells us crews are working to restore power to these customers as quickly as they can. we will continue to track today's storm as it nofz across the bay area. >> also why would a full-time teacher with 12 years of experience need a second job? tonight we're working on building a better bay area and

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it is not a good day to travel. check this out. on the left you can see live doppler 7. so much activity there. on the right that's a live view of fris international airport. airlines, they've canceled 156 flights. another 477 are delayed. it works out to be more than a third of sfo's flights. you'll also face delays driving in the sierra. look at all that snow. 80 and 50 are both open. however, chains are required.

>> those southbound lanes of highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains shut down today because of a mudslide. the chp tweeted this photo after they managed to get one lane reopened. abc 7 news reporter chris nguyen is live. chris? >> reporter: traffic has been pretty rough out here tonight but we are starting to see? relief. take a look behind me. we are live on highway 17. the cars on the opposite side. those are the southbound lanes as drivers make their way from san jose to santa cruz. the slower conditions all because of that mudslide you mentioned just south of the glenwood cutoff. let's show you some video from earlier and give you a closer look. this all happened around 4:00 this afternoon. you can see the brush and debris blocking the right lane. good news tonight, the left lane is back open to traffic. at this point crews are working to reopen the right lane by arou around 6:30. caltrans is waiting on some equipment to clear out all of that brush and debris. and returning back to a live look here on highway 17, it has certainly been a rough go for

drivers. we were actually stuck in some traffic earlier today. in the same area because of an accident earlier. so if you need to travel over the hill tonight, you might want to -- you might want to just hold off a little bit and let these conditions pass before you hit the road, give yourself some extra time if you do need to make your way up the mountain tonight. we're live on highway 17. i'm chris nguyen, abc 7 news. >> all right, chris, thank you. heading over that hill can be difficult on a good day. traffic in san francisco has been at a crawl as drivers try to safely make their way out of the city on this evening's commute. abc 7 news reporter vic lee joins us live with an update. and vic, where are you tonight? >> reporter: well, i'm at 1st street and howard. and traffic is moving slowly, but as you can see, it is moving. this is a major concourse to the bay bridge. so it's always busy here on first street. but tonight i think the only difference is that commuters started earlier than usual.

the first street corridor to the bay bridge, always crowded during the evening commute. bumper to bumper traffic by late afternoon. today the mass exodus began around 2:30. >> the storm's coming. >> i'm trying to get home. >> okay. good luck. >> thank you. >> reporter: commuters thought yesterday's evening commute was bad. it was. >> are you leaving town early? >> yeah. yesterday took me 3 1/2 hours to get home. >> where's home? >> benicia. >> i'm leaving early. yesterday i was in traffic for like two hours. >> reporter: but so far no torrential rain yet. optimist katherine catmoose. >> it's not raining right now. maybe it was a bunch of hullabaloo for nothing. >> reporter: some like nikki andson haven't even heard about the storm. >> i know we have a little bit of snoerm coming to tahoe. >> but not about this storm coming here? >> not too much. >> reporter: by early afternoon the streets of san francisco were very wet. jean baker was taking no chances. the odds of getting home on time were getting worse.

>> this is probably 10% or 20% worse than normal getting out of the city at this time. >> reporter: san francisco police are asking you to slow down, be cool, be patient. >> allow some extra space between yourself and the car in front of you and just be prepared for quick slowdowns or potentially emergency stops. >> so as you can see, lots of traffic here on first street heading to the bay bridge, to the east bay. but it seems to me that for a rainy day commute there seems to be fewer cars than usual. maybe the worst is yet to come. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> that's looking on the bright side. >> thanks for the optimism. but he is right. it seems like it's going to get worse. >> yes. spencer christian is here with what's coming our way. spencer. >> that was a good forecast from vic. the worst is yet to come. in fact, it's arriving right now in some places. here's a look at live doppler 7 and you can see where it's arriving right now.

up in the north bay. well, actually, there's a wide swath of heavy downpours right now approaching the coast, but in the north bay they have arrived from santa rosa down to -- well, let me give you a closer look. from santa rosa down to petaluma to san rafael. parts of sonoma county, napa county, marin county, down to the golden gate, and there's more on the way about to sweep through san francisco and onto the peninsula. this is the view from sutro tower where you can see how shaky the camera is because the wind is gusting really heavily up there. it's 61 degrees in san francisco right now. 59 in oakland. 61 in mountain view. upper 50s at san jose and morgan hill. and 50 at half moon bay. this is a view of the golden gate wheret's beginning to pour. you can see what the machlt is -- i think you can see how forceful the rain is as well. 57 degrees at santa rosa. 59 petaluma. 56 fairfield. 62 concord and lirmore. -60 degrees. one more live view from our

rooftop camera at abc 7 looking along the embarcadero where it's quite yet but the traffic doesn't seem too bad yet. forecast features stormy conditions will be with us overnight. showers and gusty wind tomorrow with lighter storms on friday and sunday. let's get back to our current storm. it ranks 3 on the storm impact scale. so through tonight we can expect more periods of heavy rain, possibly thunderstorms, damaging wind gusts still likely and flooding of course and downed trees may occur as well. the forecast animation starting at 7:00 this evening. notice that hour by hour you see the slow movement of these areas of heavy downpours indicated by the red and the orange colors here all across the region. these will be widespread heavy downpours going on into the late-night hours. we'll begin to wind down a little bit in the north bay after about 10:00 p.m. but the rest of the area still getting socked by this storm until almost midnight when it finally starts to break up a little bit into more widely scattered showers. our storm concerns tonight are very high for these features. hydroplaning, downed trees and power lines, flooding on

roadways and flooding in small streams as well. debris flows and mudslides. great concern for that as well as the soil is just so saturated and gets more saturated as the night goes on. rainfall potential from tonight's storm and tomorrow's storm through tomorrow night 11:00 anywhere from about .8 of an inch at san jose and san francisco, just under half an inch in oakland but nearly an inch in san ramon. now move to the north bay where the rainfall totals will be even greater. 1.66 issues are likely in napa. nearly two inches of rain in fairfield. the soaking goes on. let's not forget about the strong wind. we have a high wind warning in effect for the higher elevations of the bay area, the hills and mountains, until 3:00 a.m. and in those higher elevations we may see wind gusts above 60 miles per hour. once again, concerned about possible downed trees blowing debris and power outages. on we go to a look at the wind gusts. 8:00 tonight we expect gusts right around or above 50 miles

per nour san francisco, mav moon bay, point reyes. just under 50 miles per hour at 8:00 p.m. at san rafael and oakland. strong, powerful gusts. they will diminish just a bit as we approach midnight. but not a lot. still had no idea np ranging from 30 to 40 miles per hour, perhaps even above 40 miles per hour at oakland hayward and livermore. on we go to the sierra where winter storm warnings are in effect until friday and a blizzard warning in effect above 6500 feet until noon tomorrow. whiteout conditions likely of course. and travel not advised. overnight lows mainly low to mid 50s, highs tomorrow generally upper 50s to maybe 60 degrees. and here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. rainy gusty conditions tomorrow. storm impact ranking of 2 tomorrow. lighter storm, scattered showers mainly on friday. we get? partial clearing late friday and saturday but then sunday another storm comes in and finally

monday martin luther king jr. begins what we hope will be a string of dry days. >> that will be much welcome. thanks, spencer. new at 6:00, a major warning for a local source of oysters. >> what's happened to

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this morning water from the bay area was starting to flood the promenade along the embarcadero in san francisco. look at the water just come up over the sidewalk. >> yeah. and new at 6:00 tonight oyster harvesting in tamales bay has been shut down because of a norovirus outbreak. there have been 49 confirmed cases since late december, most of them in san francisco. the state has recalled oysters sold to 34 restaurants by hog island oyster company. the marin county public health officer says officials are now sampling tamales bay oysters and have not found any evidence of norovirus. they say it's likely because of water contamination not food handling or harvesting practices. our coverage of tonight's strong storm continues at 6:30. >> next we're live in the north bay which has borne the brunt of this wet weather. >> kind of like an explosion. the dog went nuts. i thought it was thunder for a anyone. >> it wasn't thunder. is it was a tree. just one of the many casualties of this strong storm and there

may be more trees coming down in the next few hours. stay with us.

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tonight's top story isf course this storm. it ranks level 3 on the abc 7 news storm impact scale. and that's affecting all of us. >> abc 7 news weather anchor spencer christian is back to see who's getting the worst of the weather right now, spencer. >> the worst of it right now is moving on shore right around the golden gate and in the north bay. here's a look at live doppler 7. you can see how widespread those heavy downpours are as indicated by the yellows and oranges here. heavy rain up around santa rosa, petaluma, san rafael and as i said moving through the golden gate and into san francisco. once again it's a level 3 storm and through the night we'll see periods of heavy rain, possibly some thunderstorms, damaging wind likely with gusts over 60 miles per hour at times in the higher elevations. here's our forecast animation

taking us through the next two or three hours p you can see very little letup in the storm except maybe the north bai bay after about 10:00 p.m. but it won't let up in other areas until around midnight and even after that we'll see other waves of stormy weather moving in during the overnight hours and tomorrow morning. this is quite a strong storm. ama? >> all right. thank you so much, spencer. new at 6:00, a 20-minute delay on bart and blame a fallen tree. a large tree struck a train track on the way between concord and pleasant hill. no one is injured is no apparent damage was found. ground staff are working to remove the tree. in the north bay this tree was blocking neely road in guerneville and snapped a power pole. another tree came down on old monteria road damaging an suv as you can see here. in forestville power lines came down and a small fire was seen on the grass near martinelli road. at last check more than 22,000 people around the bay area are without power. here's a look at the map of outages from pg&e. abc 7 news reporter wayne

friedman is live from highway 101 in marin county making his way in one of our news vans. wayne, how does it look out there? >> reporter: you know what's interesting, after a whole day of waiting for this storm all of a sudden it's arrived we can't see it but we can hear it. i'm going to switch this camera, i'm going to let you listen to this. we're going 40 miles an hour. listen. that is the wind and the rain bouncing against the side of this roof and the windshield. it's loud. as this storm gains intensity, we've been rocked by wind, we've been pelted by rain. people knew this was coming. but first what we saw coming as people got ready before the big stuff hit. >> reporter: before the rain and the wind and the traffic and the headaches and all the down sides to a downpour the north bay had time to prepare this morning. >> we can do five. >> reporter: there is a first time for everything as lynn de la cruz showed up at a sand pile outside novato public works she told us all about it.

never before had she filled a sand xwag. and i looked online how to do it, where to find, it how to do it, so i hopefully have the right technique. >> reporter: it's one of those little stories in the larger one, and lynn had company. kayla gold made her first sandbags here too. >> sometimes you don't have a choice. depends on what you need. >> where's the satisfaction? >> where's the satisfaction? because i figured out how to do it myself, which was fun. >> reporter: though on a day like there fun is a relative term. >> i think it's going to be pretty big. >> reporter: inside novato public works they saw this one coming. keith brant watched blobs on a monitor waiting for those blobs to become problems. we can plan, we can prepare as the street crews for the evening, they remained optimistic and also diligent. a phone call away. >> we put crews out in each area make sure the drains are open. >> sow keep the city going. >> we have to keep the city going. >> reporter: and as we come back live, just one more look and listen at the front end of this

news van. 40 miles an hour and we can ande keep the rain off the windshield in this truck. one good bit of news for the people in a lot of these public works departments. we've had rain before this year. so a lot of the debris that was in rivers and streams has washed away but the other side of this is this grupd is now saturated, who knows what's going to wash in next? we're in the storm finally. we can't see it but we can hear it. live on highway 101 heading south in novato. wayne friedman, nbc 7 news. >> you guys be safe. the santa clara county fire department tweeted this video of damage cause when'd a tree went down on crestbrook drive in saratoga a few hours ago. a big tree came down. the falling tree brought down, as you can see, power lines as well as a transformer. on the peninsula at least

two trees came crashing down this afternoon. this one on south hill boulevard in daly city. firefighters had to use chainsaws to get it cleared from the road. in pacifica another tree came down on a house on paloma avenue. crushed the porch. fortunately, though, no one was hurt. in san francisco look at this. a huge tree came down on lombard street in the presidio, and a crafter tweeted this picture. she says the tree blocked the road as well as the route for the 43 muni bus. in the east bay take a look. this 50-foot tree in lafayette is just one example of the casualties of the storm. abc 7 news anchor eric thomas joins us live from walnut creek tonight. eric? >> reporter: and ama, we just had a couple of good gusts come through here a few minutes ago. so i'll see wayne his 40 miles an hour, and maybe we had a mile or two more powerful. we also have saturated ground here as well, and we've been watching tice creek down below sort of go up and down. right now i'd say it's up.

and at the deepest point it's probably about seven or eight feet deep. getting back to what's been going on with trees and with sandbags around here, let's just a it's been busy. here's a sound you often hear after stormy weather stomps through the east bay. chainsaws that public works crews use to cut up the dead trees that have fallen. today it's an old oak that came crashing down in lafayette. >> it was a 50 poot oak tree that fell on withers avenue in lafayette, fell across both lanes. had a five-foot base. it was a very old oak tree. >> the whole house shook. so i ran outside and saw the big oak had fallen. cut up and moved away by early afternoon. in martinez the worry is flooding. so a lost sandbags started their day at rankin park and went to work outside the businesses lined up on main street.

martina's mayor rob schroder just moved his insurance office here from walnut creek and is taking precautions. >> it doesn't flood up above the windows but we get to to the curbs usually, maybe a little higher. then with traffic going down main it creates wake and that will presumably -- from time to time it will go underneath the doorways. >> reporter: a recent flood control project keeps it from getting too bad. elsewhere county public works is keeping an eye on the usual suspects. clogged drains and culverts. and they're counting on homeowners to do the same. >> check the drainage areas. there's a lot of leaves. there's a lot of debris that clogs up and when the rain tends to form that's when you get trouble and you get saturation. >> reporter: it's not consistent right now. we'll have a gust blow through. you can just see these branches moving around a little or we'll have heavy rain start and last for about 30 seconds or so and let up a little bit.

for us this is all indicate-off we'll see much more of that heavy rain and much more of the winds for that. of course we'll be covering it on abc 7 news. in walnut creek, eric thomas, action 7 news. >> eric, thanks very much. we are getting bucketfuls of rain here but that's not all the storm is bringing. >> the sierra is getting just stacks of snow. we'll see what it's like in the higher elevations, next. and i feel like i've never had that financial stability to be, you know, a middle-class homeowner in the city of fremont. >> what it takes to be a teacher in the bay area. you can't afford for your passion to be your only profession. at bayer our roots run deep. so chances are you've seen us around the house... or around the yard... on the shelf... or even out in the field. your mom knew she could always count on us, and your grandma did too. because for over 150 years we've been right by your side.

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