the things that matter most happen one morning and one cup at a time. ♪ ♪ winds - and this: rock slides - this is new video from no right now at 5:00, the bay area waking up to downpours, strong winds and rock slides, video from north santa rosa, huge rocks following next to mark west springs road. >> the radar, the rain continues to fall throughout the bay area. we are issuing a microclimate weather alert as that storm system moves right over our region. good morning to you. 5:00 for us and thanks so much for joining us on "today in the bay." i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. we are continuing our coverage now. we've been on air for about an hour, we started at 4:00 a.m. to help you get ready. we want to show you this new video in to our newsroom right

now, this is wind billowing in san jose, you know the big flags you see in the car dealerships, hopefully they're secured down this morning because the winds are high. >> the cars, too. >> no kidding. no reports of those flying around, but it is a stormy morning out there. >> we're seeing the heavy rain coming in waves, so it's going to be off and on, not only for the morning, but throughout the afternoon, as we see now the heaviest rain on storm ranger moving through parts of the east bay as well as the north bay, as we get a look at the rainfall rates over toward hayward and moving over toward the castro valley area, coming down at about 0.1 of an inch of rain per hour. as we get a look at the wide view of this storm, still a lot of rain that will be rolling through throughout the morning commute, and also as we go throughout the day. so right now, we are under a high wind warning in effect for the coast and the hills. the valleys are under a wind advisory, and that's where winds could reach 45, and up to 70 for the coast and the hills. also a flash flood watch so

we're watching out for the potential of flooding around bay area creeks and also poor drainage areas. i'll have more on that in just a minute. headed over to mike, you're tracking the morning commute. >> already during the last hour, we've had a big crash cleared from the bay bridge and from the area approaching the caldecott tunnel, partially i think because of the conditions. a minor crash, what sounded like a minor crash and cars sliding off of the roadway. the rain hitting the lens here on the richmond side of the richmond-san rafael bridge, why you want to have your wipers in good order because they have to clear that, the activity we saw in a live camera, more activity toward the south bay and the peninsula and the build is suddening for the roadways. the weather data is wet and slippery. we should see metering lights in the next 20 minutes but looking at the slower drive 580 through oakland. i'll check what's going on through the piedmont area.

the north bay getting soaked, a lot of rain falling overnight and the winds are picking up. >> "today in the bay's" pete suratos joins us live in san ansel anselmo. how is it looking now? >> reporter: good morning to you, laura and marcus. we're getting soaked as the rain comes down in downtown san ansel anselmo. this area has historic flooding. in the building they have sandbags set up. from past experience, covering some of the stuff, we're not seeing as many sandbags but of course that can change as we see more rain throughout the day. but before we talk more about san anselmo, i want to show you cell phone video from the drive from mill valley to san anselmo through corte madera. you want to have the windshield wipers ready to go because the rain is coming down as you're driving throughout at least the section of the north bay that we're in. now, back here to san anselmo, in the north bay, you got ross valley fire department saying

their staffing will be increase as a result of this, a swift water rescue team in place on standby, because there's plenty of concerns. the concerns first and foremost are if there will be flooding. obviously right now we're not at that flooding stage, but that's one of the concerns. also they're concerned about the wind accompanying that rain and also the possibility of power outages in the area, that could be a big problem. so we talk to some folks last night who said that at least the locals that spoke to us, they said they're not taking any chances with this rain coming in. >> on some of the windows we put some plastic wrap in front of the plywood or behind it, and we use a staple gun. >> it's been raining all season right now so we cleared the gutters and everything seems to be draining pretty good. >> hope the power doesn't go out. >> right. >> the little one will have, you know, without youtube. >> reporter: take you back out here live, look at that rain coming down here in san anselmo. the rain is definitely picking up in the north bay as kari

mentioned all morning long, and we're keeping an eye on that san anselmo creek, the creek levels and last check at about four feet which is four feet under the warning area, so we're going to continue to monitor that and bring you guys another update in the next hour. we're live here in downtown san anselmo, pete suratos for "today in the bay." >> thank you very much, pete. it's good that he brings up the creek, because the flood watch for creeks and small streams? >> yes and we're watching all the bay area creeks and rivers and the water levels with the expected rainfall totals but there are two rivers in the north bay that may get near at least the flood stage or the action stage and possibly above the flood stage and that's the russian river in guerneville looking at friday morning, where the water levels will be peaking and could be over flood stage there and for the napa river, downtown napa we watch that one closely, up to about 24.6 feet on thursday afternoon at 2:00. so a couple of spots we'll have to watch as the heavy rain

continues to move through. >> thanks so much, kari. north of there, the storm already leaving an impact in sonoma county. new video, look at the downed free near coleman valley road about midnight. it was near the bohemian highly in occidental. the road was cleared in 90 minutes. look at the crews that had to deal with that tree. more than 200 pg&e customers lost power. >> we look at the pg&e current outage map there, and you can see so far, there's no serious impact from the storm, but with high winds in the forecast, of course crews are already on standby. want to take you live to sfo, where united airlines is getting ahead of the storm. the company issued a travel waiver for flights in and out of sfo today and tomorrow. it actually means you can change your flight at no extra charge. according to flight aware, about 65 flights at sfo are canceled today, about ten are delayed.

you're encouraged to check, of course, with your airline before you head to the airport. this is a great way to download the free nbc bay area app, that way you can track the breaking weather alerts as well as keep track of the radar right there on your cell phone. you can get the alerts as rain heads to your neighborhood. developing this morning, president trump refusing to tip his hand on whether he'll support the budget compromise brokered by lawmakers. they actually reached that deal monday. if the president does not approve it by midnight friday, it would trigger a second federal shutdown. the president says the deal falls short of what he wants to build, the border wall. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are urging him to sign the compromise. >> please, mr. president, no one got everything they wanted in this bill, but sign it and don't cause a shutdown. >> i would encourage the president to bank the win and then to build on that and to do what is necessary to protect our

country. >> the agreement provides about $1.5 billion for a small portion of a new barrier along the border. but the president has called for nearly $6 billion in wall funding, and he says he still is considering an executive order. 5:08 right now, new calls this morning for a full review of the gas explosion and fire in san francisco's richmond district that destroyed five buildings. the ntsb is already investigating, but supervisor katherine stephanie says she's calling for a full review at city hall. in the series of tweets, she says that she wants to look into the actions leading up to the explosion, and whether changes need to be made to safety standards and regulations. a man already convicted in a vallejo kidnapping that made headlines nationally is due in court for a preliminary hearing tied to state file charges. we shot this video after matthew

mueller pleaded guilty to federal charges for the 2015 kidnapping of denise haskins, she drugged haskins' boyfriend, now her husband. mueller is serving 40 years for the federal charges but now he wants to act as his own attorney to fight similar charges against him in solano county. it is possible the couple will have to take the stand as part of a cross-examination in this case. you may remember the story made national headlines because vallejo police initially dismissed the whole thing as a hoax. the city eventually agreed to a $2.5 million settlement. it is 5:09. the name dixie is officially dead when it comes to the name of a north bay school district. it's a story we've been following in detail on "today in the bay." people who live in northern san rafael have argued the dixie school district name is offensive. late last night, all five board members agreed, voting unanimously to change the name. as our pete suratos explained yesterday, about a dozen new names will be considered. right now as we approach

5:10, if you're about to head out the door, we are seeing some of the heaviest rain moving through much of the north bay right now, and as we get a closer look at santa rosa, a lot of bright reds here anywhere from petaluma up through healdsburg and extending toward st. helena. we have to deal with this off and on and the north bay will be targeted for some of the heaviest and highest rainfall totals, looking at mill valley with some heavy rain, and also some lighter showers moving through san francisco, and the south city area as well. here is a live look outside in san jose, mostly some light rain right now, and as we go over toward evergreen, the winds will be gusty as temperatures stay in the upper 50s so we'll be going throughout the time line of what to expect for today, coming up in a few minutes and mike, chp is really busy right now. >> kari, they're tracking 33 incidents right now. i know they're busy usually, but we don't have that much activity on the chp reports. most of that activity shows up in smaller crashes around this portion of the east bay, alameda and contra costa county as we

look at the rest of the bay, green speed sensors. storm ranger with the red beam shows the good scan getting us activity across 24, east shore freeway, and coming up across the bay bridge area where we see the build cap already so that is one concern. we are looking at the conditions at the bay bridge, active rain and the build, those metering lights should be turned on schedule. let's look at waze because we see slowing as well westbound 580 approaching lake shore and not on chp but waze we did get that report from one of our friends, our community members so we thank them. we urge you to join nbc bay area wazers, the name right here, that's our team. back to you. >> all right, thanks, mike. still ahead on "today in the bay," what's next for mexican drug lord joaquin "el chapo" guzman, now that he's been found guilty? the possible prisons he could be spending the rest of his life in. and is the number of americans who filed their taxes, as it grows, so too does the confusion. we'll try to sort it out. plus, are you ready?

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mike traffic tease right now at 5:14 our microclimate weather alert continues with heavy waves of rain moving through in the north bay and san francisco we will see more of this and as we head over toward fremont, looking at 880, it's a sloppy commute, as

we go throughout the day, the winds continue to gust throughout the day, and our temperatures will actually warm up. we'll talk about that and also what's ahead in the rest of the forecast in less than five minutes. >> kari, you mentioned the gust of wind and i did have that camera moving here, emeryville camera was shaking a couple seconds ago and chp issues a wind advisory for the bay bridge. it's soupy but this is one of the clearer shots we've had this morning. we'll track your commute. and good morning, very happy wednesday to you. a lot for the markets to like this morning. it looks like there's a deal in washington and the president has said he may delay new tariffs against china. apple and google are under pressure to get rid of an app in their app store, it's called appsure created by the saudi government and helps citizens manage passport and entry visas. the u.s. government has something similar called mobile

passport. they c the father can use this to remotely control his wife's or daughter's travel. the app adheres to saudi law. samsung set to unveil new phones in san francisco but the company suffers from a number of leaks. the blog says the phones will be available in canary yellow and fingerprint reader on the power button. samsung is expected to introduce a foldable phone. the labor department says there are more than 7 million unfilled jobs in the united states. the latest report is different from the jobs report, where we learned how many people don't have a job, in this case we learned how many jobs don't have a people. the labor department says the number of unfilled jobs is the highest in nearly 20 years. there are more jobs than there are people in los angeles and san francisco combined. we were talking earlier this week about tax returns, many americans discovering their refunds are smaller this year. that has led to some confusion.

you should have made adjustments to your tax withholding after the tax bill passed, but 80% of americans didn't. so your paycheck didn't sync up with the new tax law. you got a tax cut, but you're getting less back at the end of the year. that has people understandably confused. senator kamala harris seems to echo that confusion. she tweeted "the average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. let's call the president's tax cut what it is, a middle class tax hike to line the pockets " t right. a tax return and what you pay in taxes are not the same thing. in many american cases the amount of money they gave the government went down over the year, that's the tax cut you're seeing in action. in the process, they overpaid less. >> right. >> so the refund is less. i know it's disappointing, but it doesn't mean you didn't get the tax cut. >> exactly. and in theory, to get it, it should be more equal, to do it during the year. >> and you can do that, go talk to your hr representative and i

think a lot of people are. you can adjust your withholding to match the new tax bill, and the irs said hey, you should have done that last year. like nobody does that. until you get a check and go, oh. >> exactly. something to look into. thank you very much. what we're following this morning is the big storm that is hitting the bay area. we've issued a microclimate weather alert and in fact, take a look at that radar. that is what is hitting the bay area right now as we take a live look from san francisco, a soggy start to your wednesday morning, and a lot of winds as well. >> soggy and windy, and we had that combination, those umbrellas just leave them at home, wear the rain gear. you need a poncho and rain boots and things like that. here is a look at storm as we see some of the heaviest rain continue to move through. we have it parked on san bruno mountain and picking up on some high wind gusts there. headed over toward santa rosa and healdsburg, bodega bay

really coming down there, rohnert park and down to petaluma and down to the south bay the rain is wider coming down 0.1 of an inch of rain per hour, a light, steady pattern and then we are seeing some of the heavier rain, where we see more yellows over the krouz msaz mountains where we'll measure more rain compared to the valleys. it's starting to work its way in from the coast and rolling across the bay area, the central valley and over toward the sierra. as you go up in elevation above 5,000 feet we are seeing the snow but this is a warmer storm compared to what we've had recently. so as we go through hour by hour, here we are at 7:00. the main time more people are heading up out the door and headed to work, we are seeing some widespread rain moving through, but then look at 8:00, where we're not seeing as much of the yellows and the reds. the rain is lighter, so it's still going to be raining, but it won't be as heavy as what we'll see during the 7:00 hour

and then it does become more scattered going throughout 10:00 to 11:00, but some pockets of some heavy rain still possible, all around the bay area. going into the afternoon, the evening commute will still have a high impact, and it may take you longer to get home, but we are not seeing as much of the widespread heavy rain and it may be a little bit more focused on parts of the north bay, where they will also have some very high rainfall totals and more of that rain training over some of those same areas. going into tonight, scattered mostly light showers, but then it does become a little bit more broken up as far as the coverage, but by tomorrow at noon, some colder air will start to come in and some of the showers that develop may produce some brief, heavy downpours, and then also maybe a little bit stronger, with some gusty winds. going into thursday night, we still have rain coming down in spots, and even into friday morning, so this will be a little bit more of a prolonged event. now, we've seen recently with just a few breaks in between, rainfall totals will be quite

high in some spots, like san anselmo, measuring over three and a half inches of rain possibly and the santa cruz mountains over four inches of rain. with all this rain in the forecast, that's going to add up and may increase our reservoir levels, so for more on that, let's head down to morgan hill, where our forecaster vianey arana is live. how are the water levels looking there at uvas reservoir? >> reporter: that's a good question. we are standing on a bridge on top of the uvas creek. as you know the uvas reservoir all the water that flows out of that flows into the creek and i'm going to have the photog pan over and you can see, there's video from last night of this exact area of how this looked and we did have our crews out here as well checking on the residents nearby, they spoke to campers whether they were worried about the levels and so far it looks like they have not

closed the camp state but we're monitoring that closely because of all this rain, so let's get an update on how the reservoir levels are doing. the uvas is at 100% of capacity and in addition we're monitoring the other south bay reservoirs as well, the vasona is at 85%, lexington 75% and stevens creek 75% and almaden 81%. the other creeks are at a good level. i'll have another look at the future rain totals of what we can expect tomorrow. for now, kari back to you. >> thank you, vianey. we will see the rain for the next couple of days so the concerns there we'll continue to watch all of our water levels and cooler temperatures moving in by the end of the week, by saturday we will have a brief break but it will be a cool day and showers moving in on sunday, a slight chance of some rain moving through. so more on that, and also a lot

of activity out there on the roads. mike, you've been busy. >> i have. actually not me, i should say i've been reading the chp reports. chp has been entering all of these incidents, over 30 incidents that we're tracking along with them right now. of course, be careful because the roadway conditions are the big story. you saw all those green is ensource out there for the roadways. they're moving nicely. all this yellow and orange is where there's more rain activity here, over at woodside approaching the dumbarton bridge and also up in there in the east bay and contra costa and alameda counties, toughest range across to the richmond to san rafael bridge and highway 4 and off the carquinez bridge is the upper east shore freeway. i'm hearing about a crash right here getting away from the maze eastbound 580 at 24, a crash reported there. i don't see slowing but chp has a number of lanes blocked and the metering lights turned on early at the bay bridge as well. very slippery. back to you. >> it sure is. thanks a lot. coming up next on "today in

the bay," how a major american airport is celebrating valentine's day, starting tomorrow. plus, new video of hungry bears inside a tahoe home, going through the kitchen, and the bedrooms. how the family finally got those bears out. it's all still ahead. we are con

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lord joaquin "el chapo" guzman. prosecutors want him never to be free again. they're asking he be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. el chapo was convicted of ten drug and other charges due to previous prison escapes, there's a possibility he'll be sentenced to a super max prison facility in colorado. caught on camera, bears breaking into a tahoe vista home. the homeowner says those cubs got in through an unlocked window. one went straight for the fridge. the other checking out the bedroom. the homeowner remotely blasted a loud siren, driving the bears out of the home. >> my gosh, too common there. if your dream is to tie the knot in sin city, there's now a new way to do it before you pick up your luggage. >> pop-up wedding office is opening in the baggage claim area. the pop-up license bureau is a strategy to keep people

interested in vegas weddings by making it convenient. oh, wow. >> a little more than that, i think. 5:2. coming up next, the top stories we're following this wednesday morning. of course the wet and windy wednesday. downpours throughout the bay area right now. nbc bay area issued a microclimate weather alert for the strong system. kari will joining us with a look at how long it will stick around. you're watching "today in the bay." today in the bay:

and if you )re just waking up - this is what )s happening outside. lots of rain and wind - this new video from downtown san welcome back.

you're watching "today in the bay." this is what is happening outside, a lot of rain and wind, this is from downtown san anselmo where is flood concerns. >> a live look at our radar, the rain pounding the bay area. it's actually been the story for a couple of hours already. you'll want a nice hot cup of coffee to get through this one. good morning and thanks for watching us. i'm laura garcia. >> nbc bay area issued a microclimate weather alert for the storm system moving over the bay area. we went on early for you at 4:00 a.m. our storm ranger powered, and stationed there in san bruno mountains giving us the detailed look of just how much rain is coming down. >> let's check in with kari hall right now, she's been monitoring all of this for us. >> and it is really heavy in spots. we know how these storms go. they come in waves and right now the heaviest wave is moving through a lot of our north bay counties, and then as we get a closer look at santa rosa area, really intense rain, especially for your drive, headed out the

door this morning. you will have to deal with that, and also puddles on the roads. we've also seen the rain picking up around richmond, where rainfall rates are at about a quarter inch per hour. if it rains an hour, you measure a quarter inch of rain and then we're also seeing that for highway 4 and then also going down into parts of the tri-valley, into the south bay, right now san jose just picking up on some light sprinkles so a little bit of a break for you as we are getting a good rain shadow effect happening with heavy rain pouring across the santa cruz mountains. there say lis a lot more where came from. higher elevations measuring snow in the gentlemen yes rah, above 5,000 to 6,000 feet but this is a warmer storm so i'm tracking all the conditions we'll see throughout the day, as well as the weekend. we'll have more on that in a few minutes, and mike, you're tracking the commute and so far, a couple of problems out there. >> slick roadways really are the big concern, kari, even in santa rosa where you showed folks we're getting a little bit of a break but we had the earlier rain on the lens and roadway,

slick conditions as we are starting to see that build, again, we're using kari's radar on top of my traffic maps to show you weather and traffic are affecting your drives through silicon valley along the peninsula. despite this yellow and green radar activity you can see the green speed sensors around most of the bay. richmond a quarter inch an hour at times over the last few minutes, and we're looking at the bay bridge toll plaza as well. i pull away the radar to make it easier to see but we still have the wet roadways, that's the green highlighting so we still see the green speed sensors. that's great for the drive, but the conditions are such that you should still slow down. at the very least your normal amount of time, even though if we clock cars out, 21 minutes from highway 4 through a little bit of slowing in richmond and then down through berkeley and the brkly cur lyberkeley curve. the backup at the bay bridge. are rough. the richmond-san rafael bridge a lot of rain falling over the last ten and rain is falling a little bit lighter. back to you. >> thanks so much, mike.

5:33 right now. new this morning, the storm triggering a rock slide in north santa rosa. this is new video from the scene, large amount of rocks still up to the fog line over at mark west springs road, they managed to move some of those off the roads so drivers could get through. the roads are so slick out there and we've been watching a wet commute all morning long. >> bob redell is live, the rain has been coming down for a few hours. he is in walnut creek, how are the roads looking? >> reporter: we're getting hit by another band of rain, this is probably our second band over the past hour. we had heavy drizzle, and now getting heavier rainfall. traffic your headlights are headed toward 680 here by the walnut creek b.a.r.t. station, these are your commuters getting into the groove for the morning, so they can get on to 680, and get in to work. this is the view of 680, what it looked like earlier this morning as we were headed north 680 through san ramon. it wasn't as heavy rain then as

there is now but the same conditions basically the wet roads. so as you're out there, you want to watch your speeds, watch the distance between you and the car in front of you, and hope that the other drivers out there are like this man right here, hector zamora. >> i left earlier than normal, so i don't have to rush to get to work. >> reporter: how are the other drivers out there? >> seems like everyone's pretty cautious. i didn't see no accidents on the way out here, but yeah, i mean, i would assume everyone's keeping a safe pace and then i mean, yeah, it wasn't terrible, but i mean, obviously it's not fun driving in the rain like this. >> reporter: and chp always likes to remind us that, remember, the posted speed limit is this fastest speed that you can go as the conditions permit so 65 miles an hour is great if it's dry outside, but in conditions like today, where you have wet, oily roads, you might want to slow down and go a

little bit slower again, if the conditions and traffic patterns permit. reporting live ink withing wi w bob redell, "today in the bay." we now go to kris sanchez in san jose for us. >> big concerns about flooding. >> hi there, marcus and laura. the rain started to pick up here while we are in the south bay along coyote creek here in san jose, and the river is running swiftly. we can hear it from where we're standing right here, but we know that there is more to come. it is still below flood stage, still. already the waters are higher, they are swifter and a man got caught up in the river water. san jose fire department rescued him yesterday. homeless advocates had to go down into the creek bed where a lot of folks camp in order to warn them that the water could be rising quickly over the next few days. this is just one reason why, this is video we just got yesterday around the noon hour of water roaring out of anderson reservoir. valley water is making room for

incoming rain and anderson feeds coyote creek. a look at where the readings are right now, if you look at your screen, that blue line is the river level as of 2:30 this morning. it is at five feet, anything above ten feet in the orange or red area is flood stage. so you might remember back when coyote creek flooded in 2017, it really was a perfect storm, it was a combination of a lot of rain, heavy rain, water releases from anderson reservoir, but also a levy breach. the estimates are that, in this storm, and in the next one, the water levels here in the river, coyote creek, which is actually a river, could rise one to two feet, so we definitely will be keeping track of that for you. in san jose, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> thanks so much, kris. you know it's not just the bay area, that storm also slamming the sierra. here is a live look as you can see that fresh snow blanketing the roads there. you can see a car coming our way there. the placer county sheriff's department also sharing this video for us, the high winds

right there. high winds over the donner summit, a lot of people there are planning to head to tahoe for upcoming presidents day weekend but you need to be prepared as you see the dangers that lie there on the roads. kari is tracking the storm on all of our social media platforms as well, tweeting when the heaviest rains will fall in your neck of the woods. follow her @karihallweather. 5:38 right now. san francisco's sheriff is launching a new investigation following accusations that deputies beat the city's inmates. according to "the examiner" 15 inmates claim it took place late last year, the abuse ranges from shoves to the ground to forcing them to strip and lie down. in addition 16 female inmates say they were subjected to "humiliating strip searches in front of male deputies." sheriff hennessey takes the

allegations seriously and is taking steps to conduct a thorough investigation. a man accused of a deadly stabbing at macarthur will be evaluated at trial. john lee cowell will be determined if he's fit for trial. he returned to court today. last july cowell stabbed 18-year-old nia wilson to death and then tried to kill her sister. if convicted, he may be eligible for the death penalty. when it comes to the ongoing saga about where the raider also play next season, here is a twist you may have missed. how about northern arizona and birmingham, alabama? "arizona daily star" reports tucson and birmingham want to split the raider's home schedule. right now it's a proposal. the coliseum authority is conducting a delicate dance with the raiders and reportedly held a new round of talks recently. team owner mark davis insists he's not thrilled about playing in a city that's suing him.

don't forget, the whole show moves to vegas in 2020. >> alabama and arizona are right next to each other, there may be another state mixed in. all the green highlighting shows you where things are tough but the green sensors blend in, tough to see, easier to drive. the conditions are the big store ye of the day, as we zoom in up here, contra costa county, alameda county showing the bulk of all these incidents scattered through, most of them are smaller incidents. we have a nice drive but look at the conditions, as we get up through the area, that overlay with the radar shows you all that activity, the orange and the yellow, right around that richmond-san rafael bridge, and the bay bridge, both of those toll plazas are getting busier right now. >> look what's happening right now that radar. that rain is pounding. >> it's going to be off and on but there will be some breaks this weekend where you can get out there and get some things done, enjoy a little bit of

sunshine but it will be cool. hooer is a look at storm ranger, our mobile doppler radar showing really heavy rain moving through. you probably just can't wait for the weekend, and for some, it is a long weekend, because you may have the extension of monday, maybe even all of next week, with the kids out of school, and if you're trying to get to the see yes camera, it's going to be tough. there will be very few windows of getting there. here is a look at our saturday forecast, with a slight chance of rain, but overall, we'll just see a mix of sun and clouds, highs only reaching the low 50s and even cooler on sunday. also still a slight rain chance but we may see things starting to dry out especially if you're headed up to lake shasta, a mix of rain and snow and the temperatures reaching the upper 30s. by sunday, a mix of sun and clouds, and 40 degrees, so that may be the best travel day if you are planning to head to heavenly, we are going to see some off and on snow, but it looks like there will be a few more breaks in the snow on sunday, as well as monday, and i'm tracking all of this for you, looking at bay area rain and sierra snow.

i'll have an update coming up in three minutes. >> sounds good. that is our storm coverage that continues this morning. "today in the bay's" vianey arana will join us with a live report, talking about thes reserve vr revoir levels. will the president accept the government deal and keep the government open? we'll tell you all about it. what's better than having fast,

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right now at 5:44, a lot of heavy rain and gusty winds going on around the bay area, especially in the north bay.

it has really been coming down and we are expecting high rainfall totals there, the potential of some flooding. as we head down to the peninsula, this is a live look at palo alto. highway 101 very sloppy, and as you drive to work this morning, milder temperatures, not as cool as it has been, but you just need to leave the umbrellas at home and grab a lot of rain gear, ponchos, rain boots, all of that stuff. we'll talk about what's coming our way for the rest of the day, coming up in less than five minutes. >> kari, you grab that uhm brmb and warm beverage. the nimitz moves smoothly but we'll show you how the early commute is shaping up. conditions are very tough out there. and will he or won't he? no one knows what the president will do about the border compromise. if he signs the bill the government stays open with days to spare. to remind you, a bipartisan congressional committee came up with a solution that tries to do a little more everything. the most important part about

$1.3 billion for 55 miles of border fencing. mr. trump of course wanted more than $5 billion for a thousand miles of wall. this idea presented to him yesterday. is this acceptable to him? yesterday it sounded maybe not. >> i'm not happy about it. it's not doing the trick, but i'm adding things to it and when you add whatever i have to add, it's all going to happen. >> the president later tweeted something more positive and conciliatory thanking republicans on the committee for their hard work. to be perfectly clear, there's nothing to sign yet. congress has to pass the bill first. we think the house may do that later this afternoon. the president has three options. he can sign the bill, he can not sign the bill, but declare an emergency and take money from existing u.s. funds or do both, sign the bill, get fence money from that, still declare an emergency, and if you listen to a man very close to the president, that sounds exactly like what he's going to do. >> the president would need to

declare a national emergency. this is the time, that is a necessity, and the president, i think i know him pretty well telegraphed that very thing just today. you just heard him indicate a coming plan that he would find the other moneys on top of whatever congress gives him. >> sean hannity on fox news who often telegraphs the president's next move. three days to go, until the next government shutdown, including today in that count, because washington is working hard, trying to get this solved, before midnight friday. we will tell you the instant the president says yes for sure he's going to sign the bill and keep the government open. you can follow me on twitter, i'm @scottmcgrew. >> back to the microclimate weather alert, look at that radar right now, the rain really coming down across the bay area. >> it's going to stick around for a while, too, kari, right? >> it will be with us throughout the morning commute and heavy at times, and then it becomes a little bit more scattered as we go through the day. we're still adding uppen the

rainfall totals, looking at storm ranger showing some delight red, intense returns of what we call it on the radar, as we look at northern napa and snow h sonoma county. heavy rain through solano county and in san francisco, you can see the golden gate bridge from sausalito into the city picking up on heavy rain. this is what it looks like on our camera as we look at the golden gate bridge, people coming out of the north bay with slick conditions and those windshield wipers up on high as the rain comes down sideways. we take you throughout the day. here we are at 7:30 going hour by hour and what you can expect, still a lot of heavy rain over parts of the peninsula, the south bay, as well as the east bay, and it continues for the north bay at 7:30 this morning. as we go to 8:30, it becomes not as heavy, but still pretty widespread, and then we are seeing some pockets of some heavy rain continuing throughout the afternoon, off and on but not as widespread, and not as

much of a problem through the evening commute for areas south of the golden gate bridge, but it's still going to be coming down for the north bay, as we once again are expecting some of the highest rainfall totals there. going into tonight, still some showers moving through, some scattered rain throughout tomorrow morning, and off and on rain throughout the day tomorrow, as well as early friday, even as some colder temperatures drop in, we're still going to have some waves of rain coming through, and we are under a flash flood watch, where we have to watch our creeks, our rivers, and our streams, and so with this flash flood watch in effect, we've seen the computer models putting down some pretty hefty numbers. for more we'll go out live to morgan hill where our forecaster vianey arana has an update on that. how is it looking out there? >> reporter: car kari, the rain been light to moderate but steady. it has not stopped since we first arrived during the 4:00 hour, and we're only expecting more, so i do want to take you through some of those predicted rain totals so far that our

models are showcasing. if you pop up that graphic on the screen you can get a good idea. turn your attention to the screen, focus on your location, i'll go therough some of the areas like benloman nearly four inches of rainfall. thursday 7:00 p.m. i have taken this model time line through tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. redwood astates over three inches, san anselmo four inches and morgan hill where i currently am nearly two inches of rain as well as in the san jose area, just a little over 1.25 inches. where you see some of the darker hues it's where we expect some of the higher totals in terms of the purple color but the orange color over 1.5 and fremont a little under an inch, where we expect to see less of the rain

but still we'll be keeping a close eye on this. another update on how the reservoirs are doing coming up in the 6:00 a.m. hour at 6:15. back to you. >> thank you, vianey. along with the heavy rain we have the potential of damaging winds. we are under a high wind warning for the coast and the hills for these areas in the darker shade and that's where the winds may gust up to 70 miles per hour and some of our peak winds will be here by late morning into early afternoon, rushing up from the south, so that's when we are expecting the highest wind speeds throughout the day. and then into the next couple of days, still some scattered showers, cooling temperatures by saturday morning. a little bit of a break with partly to mostly cloudy skies, and then look at how cold it's going to be, another quick round of rain possible on sunday, but then hopefully we'll catch a break early next week, as we see a little bit more sunshine around the bay area. and mike, you're tracking a little trouble in oakland. >> this camera shot kari shows everything we've been talking about. the weather conditions the camera shaking, the wind is starting to kick up over the

last few minutes. this is the higher camera above the rooftops over in oakland by the coliseum. we see the conditions blurred because of the rain and a crash i'm tracking north of high street, blocking at least one lane. you see traffic stacking up over the last three or four minutes. we've seen this happening i think chp has arrived there, and again north 880 past the coliseum. so the conditions are very tough, and that particular crash is one issue. the rest of the bay showing light on the incidents as far as the traffic flow goes. minor impact for the weather, the slick roadways are a concern, because you can go more quickly, the roadways are less populated in many other parts. slow it down, please. we have that crash at the coliseum at the bottom of the screen. i showed you that, also for 580, we'll end with our waze system, i want to show you what's going on, getting away from the bay bridge, we had a crash in lanes. i couldn't find a lot of detail from chp, but our wazers did also indicate that, look over here reported by one of our nbc bay area team members, join our team, nbc bay area wazers but put your name in, otherwise i have to call you wazer. back to you. >> thanks, mike.

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investigative unit, give them a call. that number right there on your screen, 888-996-tips or go to the website, nbcbayarea.com/investigations. right now at 6:00, rain pounding the bay area. we're tracking the storm. this is a look at our radar powered by nbc bay area storm ranger. you could see where you live, definitely raining there. >> and we can prove it, our crews have been up all morning in the elements there. this is video of rain overnight as you can see in four different areas. live team coverage continues on the ground. and we are seeing some damage, fallen trees, reports of minor mudslides and rockslides. this as creeks keep rising. "today in the bay" continues right now. a very good morning to you, very wet morning out there. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. mike will have a look at the commute as we need to know what's going on, on the roads this morning, but the culprit behind it all is all of the rain and wind that we're experiencing. >> really high winds in some parts of the bay area. even where it's not raining very

heavily, those winds are still picking up and may cause some more problems. so as you get ready to head out this morning, we are seeing some widespread rain especially for the north bay, but it has taken a break around ukiah, but everywhere else, it is raining, and in some spots, it is really coming down. where we see the bright red shows the most intense rain and as we get a look at what's happening between let's say around highway 4 between concord and moving over toward before you get to the i-80 connector, we are seeing rainfall rates at about 0.3 of an inch of rain per hour, and then for the south bay, it's a lot lighter, where we haven't seen as much of that widespread heavy rain, but it is really starting to pick up around fremont. so as we go throughout the day, still some waves of heavy rain through the morning commute, and then we should take a bit of a break in terms of some of the heaviest downpours coming through, and it still will be a steady, light rain coming through in waves. so i'll be tracking this and how much rain we're