this is abc seven news. quex heavy rains trigger a landslide in the east bay, and tonight, a major road is shut down in both directions as crews worked to clear debris, blocking knaus cannon road between fremont. but officials say they hope to have it reopened by 7:00 p.m. tonight. good evening. >> thank you for joining us, several landslides are across the bay area and things may only get worse as we brace for another atmospheric river to hit our area. >> with the details on when it will arrive, let's get to our abc7news meteorologist. >> it arrives early tomorrow morning and seems like that was shallow landslides will be a common theme tomorrow. it's certainly possible as you look on live doppler seven right

now. scattered in nature as we get you into street-level radar and live doppler seven, right around north san pedro road, we see some slippery roadways. in the east bay it's across 580 from dublin to livermore. it is a level 1 exclusive to abc7news with scattered showers and poor visibility, slick roads and breezy to gusty areas. tomorrow it becomes a two. a moderate strength storm as an atmospheric river moves and in the morning. and that it just slams into the bay area, flood watch has been posted for the entire region through tomorrow evening. small streams and creeks are expected to see rapid rises flooding on the roadways will be possible as well. winter advisory 1:00 to 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. when guests are 40 to 50 miles row are, which will blow around, unsecured objects could cause outages. windsor already gusting to 35 miles an hour at sfo right now. i'll be back with an hour-by-hour look at the timeline of the rain coming up. >> coming up, city, thank you.

stormy conditions are being blamed for rock slides, spinouts and car crashes. sadly, one rec killed two teenagers. our abc7news reporters live in san rafael with the very latest there. >> hey, wet and windy has been raining steadily throughout the day, making roads here on 101 very slick, that deadly crash you mention happened not far from here, claiming to young lives. rain was falling in marin county, lake -- making the late morning commute slow and soggy, the chp says this may have been contributed to the terrible crash on southbound 101. two teenagers were killed. a 16-year-old male driver from sandra phelan a 17-year-old female passenger from nevada. three other passengers were hospitalized. officers say the honda civic struck the center divider. >> everyone in the vehicle was younger, which obviously makes things difficult and the

collision for those officers to investigate any time investigate crashes, especially when there's injuries or fatalities, when you see youth involved in these, it just makes it that much more. >> this rockslide came down on the southbound 101 near spencer avenue early friday morning. the big rock striking seven cars, giving them flat tires. >> vehicles were disabled by driving over the debris. and because the roadway to be shut down for a short time. >> a jackknife big rig locked all northbound rigs at 80 in oakland near high. took the chp about four hours to clear it. some drivers clearly ran out of patience looking for an escape plan, using the shoulder as an illegal offramp. >> are you ok? you're going that way? >> in napa county caltran were busy clearing debris out of a ditch on highway 121. to prevent it from flooding this

weekend first responders urged everyone to look out for street flooding and drive safely. >> my best advice is to keep his slow, have a good attitude and be careful. >> ticket slow is advice. pg&e telling us that it is staging crews all across the bay area tonight, preparing for a possible downed power lines and power outages. live in san rafael, abc7news. >> thank you, the storm could create another hurdle for opening day of crab season tomorrow. the forecasted winds could create problems for croppers trying to pull up traps. the start of the season was postponed multiple times due to delayed whale migration. the owner of rocky's quality meats as consumers can't wait to get their hands on crab. >> i'm getting a lot of calls but we are telling them it's just delay for the new year, basically. between the rough weather they will have a hard time holding up. and then, the few that

pulled off the boat because they are able to do that. >> up i will be limited, state officials have imposed a 50% crab track reduction to minimize the risk of entanglement. and you could get the latest forecast and weather updates any time on the abc7news streaming app. it's available for roku, apple tv, fire tv and google tv devices. >> let's move to the latest on the southwest airline meltdown. airline executives they operations are getting back to normal today. that's after an astounding 16,000 flights were canceled over the holidays. today, just 43 according to flightaware. locally sfo, oakland and san jose are seeing only a handful of cancellations. overall, southwest ceo bob jordan vowed to make good with customers. many were left stranded across the country, forced to rebook more expensive flights or pay for rental cars or extended hotel stays. >> our desires to go above and beyond. we always take care of our

customers, we will be looking at and taking care of things like rental cars, hotel rooms, meals, booking customers on other airlines, that will all be part of reimbursing our customers and making good on the issue. >> the transportation secretary warns the airline coface tens of thousands of dollars per violation if it doesn't deliver on the refunds. >> from being stranded to having luggage lost indefinitely, travelers have been the most impacted by the southwest airlines. one bay restaurant made a huge gesture to recognize the local employees also affected by the issues. our abc7news reporter was there is more than 100 southwest employees were delivered the gift of sushi. quick things are looking more normal at san jose international. the bay area airport that had had the most cancellations. thousands of travelers and their families are reeling from the impacts, including randy. >> my parents actually had a drive from the bay area down to

san diego, so i understand the customer perspective. >> they own their sushi confidential locations in the south bay and says he understood the employee perspective. >> the challenges that they were going through physically and mentally, showing up to work every day knowing that they were just get bombarded with a lot more problems. >> he said he decided that he could use his resources to get to san jose southwest -- gift the southwest employees with sushi and teriyaki chicken. >> i can't feed millions of people, but i fell here in san jose, the employees have always gotten us to our destination safely and with this debacle, how could i just put that smile on their face to make sure that they have a good lunch today? >> preparations to make them more than 1500 pieces of sushi starting late thursday night and continuing into friday morning. >> feeding 100 20 people, we split the prep work at all the cooking and preparing between two locations to allow us to get it done in time. >> and they were able to get it

done in time, bringing the trays to the southwest employees. they share these stories and videos with us at the moment the employees got to give. travelers have suffered because of the southwest delays and cancellations but some say they are glad employees are being recognized. these workers get through were rough patch, it's also way to give back when his business face challenges. >> during the pandemic a lot of people rush to support restaurants. they came to sushi confidential to support us. a lot of southwest airline employees are our customers and they supported us. >> in san jose, abc7news. >> the centers for disease about a new covid variant. the agency estimates xp b 1.5 is responsible for more than 40% of new infections across the country. it's overtaking other variant believed to be responsible for a wave of covid cases during the

fall. scientists believe spp 1.5 is a spinoff from xp b, which is a blend of two earlier omicron strands. we are now seeing new data from the cdc about the latest covid booster targeting the omicron variant. it shows 80% effectiveness in preventing hospitalization among seniors. most nursing home residents and staff have not received the most up-to-date shot. the bivalent booster and it's a trend that's getting worse as of this week. i.t. reporter stephanie is steel -- is digging into y. >> is the country battles yet another covid winter surge, why is less than half of the country's most vulnerable population still not up to date with their vaccinations? >> many of us feel like no cares. quick cdc data shows that only 49% of nursing home residents are up-to-date with covid vaccines in california. for nursing home staff, it's even worse, with only 36%

up-to-date. in abc 7's analysis found the rates among both groups started to trend down this week. while deaths increased. >> we know that many introductions of infections into these skilled nursing facilities do come from staff and people out and about in the community. >> a new study published in the thousands of nursing homes across the country found just a 10% increase in vaccinations could significantly reduce infections and deaths among residents and staff. >> the suggestion of this paper is that with a smaller marginal increase in vaccination rates, the secondary effects would be huge. we know that's true. >> a university of chicago professor estimates it would prevent the deaths of more than 20,000 nursing home residents each year. >> as a society, we really haven't stepped up. >> the president committed to bringing reform and improvement to the nursing home industry during his state of the union last year. but it wasn't until just last

week the white house finally waived restrictions to allow nursing home staff to administer booster shots. >> we think that nursing homes just are not high up on the priority list. >> but we've had the vaccine for years now, why was that protocol enforced just last week? >> that's a good question. >> another question, what if vaccination rates don't increase. >> we will continue to see greater than normal deaths. >> bringing a grim reality long-term. >> we don't have >>. >> after the break, president bryden grants pardons to several felons, including one from the bay area. >> overcrowded animal shelters hit crisis level. the plea from officials to help save the lives of d

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>> president biden offers full pardons to six convicted felons. they serve two years for involvement and marijuana trafficking conspiracy in 1999. the pardons include three other drug offenders on an 80-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for killing her husband. she was pregnant at the time and or has been used or during the pregnancy. a statement from the white house refers to all six as individuals who have served their sentences and have demonstrated a commitment to improving their communities in the lives of those around them. >> a 15-year-old boys in police custody in pittsburgh accused of a deadly shooting of a teenager. police say officers were called to a home near buchanan drive wednesday. they found the victim, also a 15-year-old boy had been shot. he died after being taken to the hospital. investigators say it's unclear what led to the shooting or whether it was deliberate. the juvenile subsector has been lifted and charged with involuntary manslaughter.

>> in the south bay, and animal service centers asking the public for help. the animal services is asking to give the dog a second chance of a loving home by adopting. the center has been well over capacity since march. some dogs are at risk of being euthanized if they are adopted out. especially the larger dogs. the center takes in nine dogs a day and is adopting out one per day. >> it is not sustainable. we need relief. we need these dogs to go into homes and get adopted and it's as simple as that. >> anyway you could help can provide relief. you can contact the county of santa clara animal services if you're interested in taking in a new four-legged family member. >> if you're trying to figure out your new year's eve plans, you might want to consider using public transit. we will tell you about the free and extended ♪ this rental car is so boring to drive. let's be honest. the rent-a-car industry is the definition of boring.

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>> if you're planning to celebrate this new year's eve we have plenty of transit options for you. >> there are so eve events going on in the bay area, the big one, the fireworks on the embarcadero. you'll be able to get a free ride on caltrain saturday it will offer free rides on all rounds from 8:00 p.m. until 5:00 sunday. so no need to tag your clipper card. it will offer extra subway service that will be from the west portal and for thinking stations. more buses will also be available on the out service. couch and is making it easy and free to get around safely. free trains will be offered from 8:00 p.m. saturday to 3:30 sunday. three northbound trains will be added to san francisco and annexed for two southbound trains leaving the city after the fireworks show. for new year's eve, bart will not be free and will run their standard saturday service. what with an extended closing

time. some trains will run past 1:00 a.m. along with union caltrain, alameda contra costa transit, santa clara transportation authority, bart, are either offering extended services are free rides. and if you decide to get comfy and just celebrate at home, you can still watch the san francisco fireworks show, we will be live streaming get on our website starting at midnight. just go to abc7news.com. have a safe and happy new year. >> you too, let's find more about the new year's eve forecast on the timing of the rain. >> abc7news meteorologist is here with that. >> this storm will be moving out of here just in time for your new year's celebrations. right now i wanted take you where this snow is coming down. at the lower elevations in places like tahoe, blue canyon, they are actually reporting rain. we do have a winter storm warning for tahoe until 4:00

a.m. sunday. heavy snow above 7000 feet. slopef is yea winter above 7000 tomorrow morning to sunday morning. i would hold off on travel, you'll have an on live doppler n see we have scattered showers right now as we get you into the weather radar and the district cutting out towards emeryville, oakland, foothill boulevard, skyland boulevard, we have light showers. santa cruz mountains, the summit is wet, and you know how it is when you go across the summit. definitely take it easy and give yourself extra time to get to where you need to go. mild out there this afternoon, 50's and 60's, temperatures as far as the heico above average. exploratorium camera, just a rainy view of san francisco, stormy weather, dry new year's eve and new year's day. more storms coming in. on our exclusive impact, current system is a one. three tonight, scattered showers, poor visibility, slick roads and breezy gusty areas.

it becomes a two tomorrow, which is a moderate strength storm in the morning, urban flooding, which is just roadway flooding, minor flooding that's a concern. the russian river overnight tonight expected to reach close to flood stage, so keep that in mind and keep an ion those streams and creeks near you. wind gusts, 40 to 50 miles row are, still a possibility. shallow landslides as we get rain on top of saturated ground. 10:00 tonight, you are looking up the rainfall intensity picking up. 4:00 in the morning, heavy rain across parts of the bay area. that heavy rain continues at 7:00 a.m. at 10:00 it shifts to the south bay by the early afternoon on starting to clear out of the north bay and it's all done by the time your new year's eve plans begin. rainfall totals will be one to three inches in many areas, some of the wetter spots exceeding three inches. your morning will start out story with 40's and 50's. afternoon highs with scattered showers primarily southern and

eastern parts of the viewing area. in the 50's it will be a cooler day and here's a look in your new year's eve planner, noontime , in case you're doing new new year's eve activities with little ones, low to mid 50's. showers around, sun goes down in the cloud start to part ways. fireworks show should be just fine as we head towards midnight in the mid to upper 40's. good idea to grab a coat or jacket. accuweather 7-day forecast is a level two stormy morning tomorrow, new year's eve is fine, dry start to 2023. in a one, monday, it's a stronger storm with a potentially stronger atmospheric river for thursday and friday. the storms keep coming even into the new year. >> great update on mountain lion. the baby cup is making amazing progress. she is gaining weight and eating and treating -- stringing on her

own. she's enjoying enrichment activities and to keep her healthy. the cub caught the attention of many when she was found and rescued at a home earlier this month. >> and abc tradition returns around i as a celebration gets underway to welcoming new year. after the break we hear from

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the amount of steps he takes his insane all across times square. >> they pass the hours in the freezing cold and soaking wet. good practice for this year when rain is again in the forecast. >> it will change a little bit of this. it doesn't feel like it affects me. >> their crossroads of the world will look like it did before the sides of the crowd had to be restricted due to the pandemic. but the show also takes place in other locations, including for the first time at disneyland. in segments hosted by sierra. >> to west coast parties and all of the time zones. >> we could do a seven hour show. >> the show is called dick clark's new year's rockin' eve. in memory of the man who led the celebration for so long. it's not. >> ryan seacrest is proven to

a most worthy successor. >> it's a tradition that people say they are teaching their kids to grow up with -- i grew up with a. tune into abc, watch the ball drop together and let's celebrate. >> you can c primetime rock and eve right here on abc 7 tomorrow night at 8:00. there will be a special edition of abc7news from 10:00 to 10:30 and then it will go back to ryan for a countdown to midnight. >> broke news tonight with david is next. >> all of us here, thank you so much for joining us. our next newscast is coming up at 6:00.

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