nbc bay area news begins with a microclimate weather alert. >> the bulk of the story is over but the bay area needs a couple band-aids this morning, from flooded streets in berkeley to a mobile home park overflowing on the peninsula and all the way to the south bay where walls and roofs came tumbling down, creeks gushing, some for the first time in years. >> all the damage left behind and now the impact on your morning commute. and there's more rain on the way. because of that, we begin in the weather center with meteorologist christina loren. >> hey, good morning to you. we're tracking a lot of rain. take a look at this, though. all that rain that hit us yesterday moving right into southern california where we desperately need it. they are going to get slammed. so the weather story today

shifts from us here in the bay area down to los angeles. you're going to be hearing a lot of flooding reports from down there. for us, we're going to see some light rain for the first part of the morning. we'll have thunderstorms as well. we want to first check your drive. here's mike. >> or your not drive. this is north 101 stopped at willow. all lanes are funneling off at will oaf after, get bag on at surface streets closer to marsh. there's a couple of headlights. there's stuff going on in transition here. we're seeing a full closure overnight between willow avenue and marsh. the southbound you're routed off the freeway and back on. they should be getting ready to reopen those lanes any minute now. kris sanchez is on site and will give us an update in just a bit. now the roads are drying out around the bay.

watch those slick conditions still. it's before sunrise, haven't had a chance for them to really dry out. a minor crash at 880 at 101, still on the books. but the transition routes report clear right now. we're looking toward the rest of the bay and a smooth drive. so far speeds are fine. the tri-valley a little flooding reported right around the dublin interchange. traffic is flowing smoothly through the area as well. give you a look at the golden gate bridge. yesterday we had the rain and and buffer lane. this morning we still have that in place. we'll see how things shape up. because toward the morning anyway we remove that short bit of lane. it looks like we're back to the typical flow but we'll set it up for the morning commute in just a few minutes. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. >> here's a look at the latest closures and what else is going on? and the cancellations.

while many schools cancelled classes yesterday, most are expected to reopen today. we have a list of schools that are still closed scrolling across the bottom of your screen on our web site as well, nbcbayarea.com. pg&e crews making good progress on outages across the bay area. pg&e says at least 150,000 bay area customers lost power at one point or another during yesterday's storm. fortunately it's a new day at bay area airports, one that can't possibly be as difficult as yesterday. what when more than 200 inbound and outbound flights were delayed at sfo. so far tonight nine flights are cancelled to sfo. >> it is shaping up to be the commute story of the morning. right now both north and southbound lanes of highway 101 in redwood city will reopen soon we're told to heavy flooding.

kris sanchez joins us now live near that closure. chris, any road when the highway is going to reopen? optimism so far this morning? >> well, the hope was to have it open by 5:00 and then we were told by the chp they were hoping to have it a little earlier than that. but take a look at the freeway behind us. we can see some traffic flowing on to the southbound lanes of highway 101 here near marsh road where we are this morning. still those lanes of traffic in the northbound direction are shut down. we can tell you what it looked like before this. the road was completely flooded out and folks could not get through at 11:00 the chp had to call it, shut down the freeway in both directions and the officer that we talked to said it was just an absolute mess. he said people barrelling on the freeway, driving too fast for conditions and really kind of a scary situation for crews that had to work out there and also the law enforcement had to kind

of police the roadways, keep folks off. the detour is a long one. if you have to leave in the next couple of minutes, build that into your morning. if you can afford to wait, you might be better off because, like i said that is correct detour is long. if you just wait until the freeway reopens and if it reopens on time, you should be set to go. our officers said they have seen a lot of spin-outs and folks driving too fast for the conditions. even once highway 101 reopens and the floodwater gone, we still saw a lot of ponding on the freeway as we were headed for here from san jose this morning. do be careful because not all flooding on the freeway is a shutdown. not all of it gets cones and flares and law enforcement to direct you around. you're going to have to keep your eyes open as you travel around today. >> in santa cruz where schools were open yesterday, a 70-foot

cypress street split and toppled on to an 11-year-old boy pinning his arm and shoulder. it took firefighters about 15 minutes to get the boy out. he was taken to the hospital. the good news is he is expected be okay. >> we are all waking up this morning feeling the effects of the form, especially at a safeway in san jose where we find anthony slaughter. accumulated rain may have caused the roof to collapse, frightening people patronizing that safeway. what's the latest? good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. as you mentioned yesterday, the rain was falling very heavily and that is what is believed to cause this roof to collapse here at the safeway. it is closed and you'll notice really yesterday when the crews arrived, folks were out, they were getting those people out of the store.

there was one minor injury but other than that, it doesn't seem as though other folks were hurt. but the thing about it is the speculation here is that it did collapse under the weight of the rain. now, keep in mind that these roofs are flat so you don't have any major runoff except for the gutters and of course we know yesterday that every single gutter, every pump across the bay area was just overwhelmed with all the amount of rain that came down. and of course, yeah, water, it has a mass to it so it has a weight. this morning there is a huge hole in the middle of this roof and it is closed this morning. the silver creek plaza is closed. the neighboring businesses here are closed. we'll continue to track this this morning, it's dry and the winds are now howling like they were yesterday. that offers a little relief for some of those folks will are going to be trying to clean up and assess the damage.

for "today in the bay," back to you guy. >> thank you very much, anthony. >> in the meantime the north bay is drying out from some of the heaviest rainfall it has seen in years. bob redell is live in petaluma with some of the clean-up going on there and certainly the impact left behind. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning to you, laura. it's not even as much clean-up as it is waiting for the water to recede. this is petaluma boulevard and auto center drive. this actually, in spite of all the water here, represents progress. 24 hours ago, this was much deeper, much higher, covering you can see them down there about a hundred yards from our position. they're monitoring these flooded areas. they tell us this is not an issue of a clogged storm or

sewer drain, rather it shows that there there was just so much water that the system, even though the system was working, it couldn't handle this volume. their estimate is probably going to be a couple more hours before all of this water is gone or at least to a point where they can with so much rain the water washed out southbound highway 1 between panoramic and muir woods roads. mixing that could take months. the people at san jose water pump, it broke at all times during yesterday's storm. librarians saved at least a chunk of their items. they're hoping the repair to their new carpet won't be too expensive. as you're aware, libraries

aren't exactly flush with cash, especially in these lean times. it's very dry out here in terms that we don't have the rainfall that we rathered 101, coming off petaluma boulevard. it is shut done. >> bob redell, "today in the bay." >> forget about snow boarding. dozens ditched their snow gear for wet suits at lake tahoe. details coming up. >> let's take a lf. >> coming up, the weekend forecast, whether you should make indoors or outdoor plans. >> and forecast for ipos, really, really hot.

coming up.

5:13 this morning. a live look around the bay, various locations, san

francisco, oakland and san jose. meteorologist christina loren says the worst of the system is over for now but stay tuned, our coverage of the historic storm and the clean-up will continue in just a few moments. the downpour of ipos this morning, a flash flood of money, according to scott mcgrew and a great end of the week for many bay area companies. >> three ipos in 24 hours. the biggie is lending club. that came while we were trying to avoid highway flooding and mudslides, the san francisco company was in new york and sold to investors in the biggest ipo of the year and they opened the new york stock exchange shortly thereafter. lending club stock jumped 56%. they're happy, early investors are absolutely ecstatic. now, this morning we'll see the first trading for two other bay area companies. new relic. they make business software and will start trading on the new

york stock exchange. and horton works. there's a good mood for both stocks. thank lending tree for leading the charge. good morning, landon. >> good morning, scott. happy friday. futures are lower this morning as stocks had major gains in thursday's trading session. the freefall in the price of crude continues as oil closed below $60 a barrel and then broke below $59 a barrel in evening trading. today we get data on consumer sentiment and consumer price index, which measures the change in selling prices of goods and services. scott, back to you. have a good weekend. >> have a good weekend. >> the folks who hacked sony, sam and laura, they know how to keep the news cycle going. they leak a little every bit. the head of sony apologized for

another e-mail where she and others speculated what movies the president might like. now the world is seeing e-mails between the head of sony and "new york times" columnist maureen dowd. dowd wrote a glowing article and promised to show it to her husband. it's prohibited to showing articles before being published to others, especially, as it turns out, to be a very, very glowing article. >> an interesting behind-the-scenes look there. >> yes, it is. >> appreciate that. >> behind the scenes here and all the action going on with that huge storm as well, you would have been pretty amazed. now we're garnering all the

totals of how big that storm was. >> and oh, my goodness, almost a foot of rain just from yesterday and there's more rain on the way today. that's up in sonoma county. geyserville, 11.2 in geyserville. pescadero over 9 inches, just under 10 inches of rain. mt. st. helena, higher elevations, you get that orographic enhancement. these are some of the more impressive totals. when it comes to richmond, 4 inches of rainfall, noe valley on the valley floor, 4.30 and 4.5 for milpitas. we need this rain. when it comes to getting out of the drought, it the snow pack that really matters and that's what we're getting this morning. you don't want to go to tahoe

just yet, though, it's just not safe for you. we'll let you know when it is. this morning just getting to work is going to be problematic. i'm watching this batch of rain which is going to slam the bay area and bring about another active round of weather but not until we hit around 8:00 in the bay area. at that point getting pretty decent downpours through san jose, north of santa rosa. we also have thunderstorms we're watching for you here at nbc bay area. the chance of thunderstorms will persist all the way through this afternoon. the good news is this weekend we look good and another weather make are on the way toward the beginning of next week. plus we're talking tahoe snow. first, here's mike in a traffic snarl like you couldn't believe.

over here you have to stop it, northbound 101 continuing. better news, southbound 101 completely cleared north of here and menlo park. another 15 minutes or so so this can clear this roadway. what's going on between willow and marsh, there's flooding that goes on and it's still impeding 101. thank as bunch for helping us out with local traffic control. routing you back on to the freeway for the next 15 minutes, as we said. then things should clear up and smoothen out because it a very easy drive for the rest of the peninsula and the south bay as well. minor fender benders at 880 space 101. we have flooding at meet place

so far no real disturbance for your commute. green all over the bay. 101 at granite has been a problem for flooding. on the peninsula now, a we will have this closure from march until 2015. happened a couple years ago, happened again this drainage, kind of washed out underneath. and a live look through san. "heavy rain causes massive mudslide." it happened just a few moments ago. right now no reports of why are, and eastern ventura county is

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>> we are continuing to track what's left of the storm, what you see on your right. >> let me tell you about a new study. it has found highly educated people who complain about memory loss may have a higher stroke risk. researchers looked at people who reported memory lapses were more likely to have a stroke but those risks were 39% higher than those who were educated. researchers found at least 10% of american teams get at least

nine hours of recommended sleep. researchers noticed teens sleep left the highest their grade level. music also appears to improve surgical performance, especially among doctors who listen to music regularly. >> and classical music is supposed to open up brain pathways, so we're hear. . >> we're only 13 days away from christmas and replacing thoughts of gift with more than $100,000, including an anonymous gift of $50,000. monday's fire in a downtown apartment complex destroyed the gift bags filled with every day essentials. the mayor's wife is urging

people to keep donating. >> take a look at this one, two boys in embarcadero, monster swells. for a time they had to close everything down there so people didn't get too close. >> here is something you don't typically see at lake tahoe. surfing not usually the attraction for that area. the waves, though, were so big yesterday, a few people grabbed their surf boards and figured why not. some of those waves reached as high as 7 feet. >> you got to be impressed with that california spirit. >> coming up, could they have a lot of work ahead of them today? >>'s restorations still under way. we have new updated figures.

nbc bay area news begins with a microclimate weather alert. >> the bulk of the storm is over. now the recovery is under way this morning. from flooded streets in berkeley to a mobile home park overflowing on to the peninsula, all the way to the south bay where walls and roofs came tumbling down. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. we do have team coverage from the north bay down to the south. all of that damage left behind an impact on your morning commute. but there is more rain still to come. we are going to begin right now with kris sanchez. >> parts of highway 101 in redwood city are about to be open after being flooded by heavy rain. rains have been closed between

woodside and marsh road. kris sanchez is there now. did they just give official word they think around now? >> reporter: it doesn't get more official than seeing it with your own eyes. we just saw a chp officer removing the barricades. weep also have it on good authority and that is of course from the chp and mike inouye that the northbound directions are still shut down. sometimes after they're able to clear all of the water off the roadway, it takes some time to remove the signage and all of the equipment to shut down the roadways. sound like they're waiting for caltrans to reopen. they were hoping to have this open by 5:00 this morning so the traffic flow would not be impacted this morning. but the damage was done by 11:00

last night when the roadway was completely flooded. it is a rather long detour. so give yourself some extra time, if you have to leave right now, give yourself a couple extra minutes to get where you are going. you're looking at video now of what the freeway looked like. it is an eerie sight when you see a completely blacked out freeway and that's how it was between 11:00 last night and about 4:00 this morning and even closer to the 5:00 hour when they reopened the southbound lane. this is going to continue to be a problem for at least about a half hour longer in the northbound direction. southbound you should be direction. the rain is not falling but be aware that not all ponding and flooding on the roadway is marked by a chp officer or a sign that says "flooding." sometimes it just comes up on you. make sure you give yourself extra time to travel and extra

time to stop. the roadway may not allow the traditional normal speed. >> you are so right. thanks so much, kris. >> let's give you a look at the latest closures and cancellations. while many schools did close down yesterday, most are expected to reopen today. we have a list of schools that are still closed on the ticker running across the bottom of your screen. and you can find that information on our web site at nbcbayarea.com. pg&e latest estimate is 3,400 outages.est estimate is 3,400 they say about 150,000 customers lost their power at one point or another during yesterday's storm. and fortunately it's a new day at bay area airports, one that cannot possibly be as difficult or trying as yesterday. delays extended beyond three

hours for many other flights. so far today nine flights have been cancelled. and an 11-year-old child recovering after a tree fell and pinned him to the ground. the boy was with his classmates when the 70-foot cypress tree fell and pinned the boy's arm and shoulder. thankfully he is expected to be okay. >> among those who spent last night without power, an entire apartment complex knocked out by a toppled utility pole. the pole crushed on top of a car. thankfully no one was inside the car. it did add a jolt to the residents who were already dealing with the deluge. >> it was a big thump on the ground and then we came out here and smelled smoke and fire. 48 units have no power. >> i said the first part of the storm, i didn't think i would be part of it but i guess i am.

>> we all were. pg&e crews arrived at the complex yesterday to begin work on installing a new utility pole. >> the storm left the feelings of its impact all over parts of the bay area. one of the most memorable sights or area, the south bay. anthony slaughter joins us at the site of a safeway where the roof collapsed. >> reporter: good morning. the safeway at silver creek plaza closed because of speculation that the roof collapsed under the weigh of the water falling yesterday. the rain fell very heavy yesterday in many locations. this was one of them as well. at the time of the collapse yesterday afternoon, there was about an 1.5 of water on top of this roof. that is what most folks think caused this roof collapse. let's hear from one person yesterday who was getting out of

the safeway when crews arrived. >> it sounded like a rumble, explosion and then the next thing i seen was a bunch of people running out of the safeway, the sliding doors came off the tracks and there was -- i looked in and the whole left side of safeway was collapsed in. >> this morning the hole is still exposed and safeway is closed this morning at silver creek plaza. even the neighboring businesses are closed this morning just because they don't want this to happen to some of the other businesses near. the thing about it, the rain has stopped, the wind has calmed down. so as crews get out here to try to assess the damage, they will have better weather to contend with. we're live here in the silver creek plaza. but what is on the way?

let's check with meteorologist christina loren. >> every window will close from time to time. nothing like yesterday. i'm going to point that out. also, in addition to the rain fault that's going to move onshore, we do have some thunderstorms and we are noticing -- that batch is going to arrive. by about 8:00, it will be draped over the north bay, pretty good ra rain. >> this will continue to be the case until about 4:00 today. then the showers will turn spotty and we will get a nice little break just in time for the weekend and, after all, it is friday and one of the final weekends before christmas. you might want to get out there.

also, hanukkah is next week, do some shopping. you'll be able to do so. as we head throughout next week, there is another fred this system is going to pack a punch. it does have an atmospheric river flow. when we meet back here on monday, we're going to be tracking another weather. >> so as we head throughout the bay today, spotty showers expectable. if you wanted o to to we'll hopefully get some live pictures

and wreaks of a being. >> all right, christine, yes. snarl is right. fill stg. >> and at north 1001, chp said. >> we do see officers ready to escort traffic back on to the road that was closed. you have a sizable back um i don't know the approach. as kris said, the reroute is kind of circuitous. you might want to sit at home for another 15 minutes or so. closer to 6:00 we should see those lanes reopen. there have been some delays open on the northbound side. we expected that to be moving smoothly by now. it is 101 northbound from

university and willow that is packed up right now and actually inaccessible. the rest of your bay moves pretty smoothly. we had a little backup and a little drizzle there. grand avenue is blocking your two right lanes. back to you. >> healthy weather will. >> there's also a storm -- has been a storm brewing on capitol hill. that appears to be subsiding. still ahead, the big votes. plus, the senate is set to vote on a bill that would stop the government from shutting down. this is more of an explainer on what we just mentioned.

not everybody is satisfied once the smoke clears. >> and rescue crews were plucking people from floodwaters. >> and a live look outside this morning. that's the city of san jose, also drying out, along with many of its counterparts, up and downtown peninsula, north bay, east bay. everybody adjusting to all the rain water we just saw and gearing up for another system this week. 15 minutes of nonstop news, traffic and weather after this break.

>> well, it is moving forward slowly. some democrats didn't like getting rid of limits for campaign finance, for example, so wealthy donors could give ten times more to their favorite candidates, or some rules that would roll back restrictions on wall street, maybe lead to a taxpayer funded paleout. they didn't want to vote for that. the end it did pass by 13 votes. the senate may vote as early as today but now that the shutdown deadline has been extended to tomorrow, it could be a bit of a challenge and some scrambling over the weekend. >> could be. one to watch. thanks so much, tracie. >> pote americans could see their phone bills rise by about $2 a year. this to help schools improve their internet space. the fcc has agreed to increase

funding. the fcc estimates that two-thirds are american schools still don't have. >> seems like we're taking a big sigh of relief now that the bulk of yesterday's storm is over. impressive rainfall totals, which is why we were warning you even the difference is everybody talks about, hey, i've never heard of school cancellations. well, the last time this happened was about a decade ago. i can tell you at that point, think of what the internet is today, back then you think ten years ago, yeah, it was just getting started.

now we've got they can we still have 48 hours to go. geyserville, we're talking about under a foot of range and richmond, 4 inches here m south bay. san o say specifically,s. >> whenever you get really, really fierce wind at the coast, this is typical temperature pod what's not so typical, 18 to 22-foot waves, that's maverick

size waves, much earlier than we typically see them. dangerous rip currents, just keep that in mind. there were a couple trouble spots from yesterday. you're going to see those giant waves. you got to love the bay area when we get those big breakers. here's what we're working with, another batch of rain on the way. this will to what we coming 9:00, 10:00, noon, things start clearing up for a nice, dry weekend. and then we get another round of rabe rain as we meet back here. monday to tuesday the rain comes back and it's not the only system we're watching for next week. let's take it to your futurecast

and we're going to seasoned it offer to mike. same wave of rain comes through on the way toward the end of next week, fry, all lanes now cleared at marsh, moving toward the area that was flooded. look at your map, still a lot of recovery to go. the southbound lanes open about a half an hour ago. second here to second san francisco, no major injuries reported. still, we have crews arriving on

se seen. >> we already see all these lanes filling in. ilt early for a friday. so folks mightable to be able. bob redell is in petaluma where nings are trying to get normal. bob, the folks in that community have some work ahead of them. good morning. >> reporter: this is a will the of waiting. >> you can see the water isn't

backing off. where those flashing yellow light are in the bach it's not an issue of a clogged drain. there's just so much water and so much volume, it's taking to get it thereies just so much but right now this road is still shut down. public works was estimating it

would forecast fortunately, as we've opinion from frrnl kpafia, if they have business down toward the city. >> that representatives f. >> reporter: am and emergency crews had to try to stead of all that floodcal transhad to actually bring in pumps on ashby avenue to reach standard cars and get them out. two teenage boys went missing while rafting in the couple. he is cue.

opinion it took firefighters about 15 minutes to free him. he is, whoever, expected to being drivers. this the scene last night at doner summer. plenty drivers still had to be pulled out or plowed out. zit 5:51 right now. certainly a fall from grace. last year twitter was rated the second best place in the united states to work. this year it's not even in the top 50. glass door listed -- you're right, no twitter. that doesn't make twitter a bad place to work. it bu it is peculiar to go from number two to not making the

list at all. so who is on the list? google and mountain view the best to work. and then bane and company, that's where mitt romney worked and then look at 31st. not bad! >> should be higher! >> new data about san francisco rent shows the media rent for a. >> maybe for a one bedroom in the bay view is $2,200. >> wow. >> that's the lowest in san francisco and still a shockingly high number. >> that's really interesting

because most we've ever heard for the most part is man heatan -- >> we just beat manhattan. for good or bad. >> i don't know we want to be atop this list. thank you very much, scott. >> it is 5:52 right now, still keeping tabs on the weather. everybody is talking about that storm that came through yesterday. >> that's the one area. >> this. >> like mike said, one stretch of the highway will not be fixed until march of next year and nks year is closing in on us. can you believe it? we've got about two weeks until christmastime and that manse you've been trying probably to get outdoors and make last-minute arrangements, whether it be hanging the lights, doing some shopping. there is more rain on the way as early as monday.

big batch of rain slowly moving towards the bay area. more of that yellow is becoming available. you can see what hit us yesterday, in comparison to what's coming our way. we can get through that. i have to tell you, though, rain on the way, two potent systems coming up next week. first here's mike and your drive. >> first of all, i have to correct what i'm saying. i've been saying palo alto is the closure but it's our palo alto camera looking over at menlo. but the issue is mute but i needed the correction. we still see slowing on the northbound sign but our speed sensors did not register it

reopened. ly correct that myself, the computer doesn't know any better. we're looking at a smoother slow there past march of. heading sought through biz bain and south san francisco, flooding reported early yesterday around grand heave. in that area we also have reports of a crash involving a vehicle that overturned there and it's blocking your two right lanes as you're heading southbound. traditional spot like yesterday but not necessarily entire live weather related. 280 by comparison very clear if you can take that route and go for it and cross over at 280. we're seeing more cars in the road than we did yesterday. so far your friday is shaking out for a relatively smooth drive. the first burst we're talking about, just about it's kind of

sparkling in the puddle there but not a lot rainfall. and we're looking at oakland for another soupy look at our roadways. a pretty good volume, typical volume as you head past high street. look at, this the toll plaza filled in. typical asked you'll 5:40. we don't typically see that. i think folks might be trying to make up for lost hours from yesterday. so we drive across this span. golden gate bridge. we have your typical center divide here. no buffer lane. two northbound lanes. that's good stuff. we send it back to you. >> some lost productivity yesterday. we'll see if folks try to get back to work. bad weather has temporarily stopped amtrak, if you're trying to use the train. services between san lewis

obispo and los angeles. amtrak is apologizing for the inconvenience but says it does not know when the trains will be back in service. >> still ahead, our coverage of the historic storm continues. we'll take you out to 101 where the busy highway has been closed for hours. >> but now re. >> live look across the bay area this morning. the storm settling here, headed sought to southern california. but still, something in the works for the future as well, still ahead, 5:57.