alert. ad lib radar. a good tuesday morning to you, february 26th, we are in a micro climate weather alert. look at the radar there. the storm makes its way across the bay area. good morning to you. >> let's get straight to ckari now. >> some of the heaviest rain continues in the north bay, it is also continuing move through san francisco as well as much of the east bay. on the south bay, we see mostly cloudy skies and the road and everything is dry. it is raining now around

saratoga and also in the santa cruz mountain. a lot more rain, this will stick with us with a steady downpour all throughout the day for most areas north of san francisco. as you head to the south, you may not see some of the heavier rain until later on this afternoon. it will continue through this evening, san jose is missing out on that rain until later on tonight. i will be tracking all of this for you and the impact of flooding that we may see over the same area. mike, you are tracking the drive and the bay bridge looks really messy. >> you see all that water and soupy, hitting the lens right now. active as far ases right? san francisco, harrison, west 80 reports of a spin out there.

anywhere north seeing wet roads and south is what kari is talking about. we'll keep track on things. some slowing on oakland. thank you very much. the rain had been coming down all night long and roads are slick and the hillsides are soaked. >> heading to santa rosa and passing to petaluma right now, pete, suratos, how are the roads looking? >> reporter: the roads are very wet with the rain in the north bay. i want to show our viewers here, we are on 101 north. we just passed petaluma on 101

north. you are going see some issues as far as potential flooding in rows when you are driving alon . i actually tweeted out some videos not too long ago. more and more of the rain. i have some videos from san rafael of some rain issues in the area. pretty much of what we show you on our live shot and some of the videos you see there. that's what we are seeing all morning long in our short drive here in the north bay starting from the middle valley area as we are enroute into santa rosa. we are hearing reports of a number of flooded roads in that area. that area is prone to a lot of flooding. we'll check in again and i am going to take advantage of this, this is my driest live report so far this morning. at 5:00 a.m. and 5:30.

we'll get what's happening in santa rosa. we'll keep an eye on this condition here and i will tweet more videos. we are live, i guess in the live drive in petaluma, we'll send it back to you guys. this rain is exactly what they did not need in sausolito. today in the bay, what's being done to prevent worse situation. >> reporter: the rain keeps coming and several more inches expected in the next 36 hours. >> we have a parked at the side of the hill almost over turned. >> reporter: some trees had to go. >> the w really dangerous. uprooted and with the new storm

coming, they're afraid. >> reporter: service checking on the tarps. >> it is basically developing topography, a topographic. >> reporter: we have seen landslide before and we'll see it again. >> the soil is saturated. there is a high likelihood that a landslide can happen some where. ter terry mcsweeney. our nbc bay area team all over the story on air and online, we want to let you know, at 8:00 we'll bring you a special forecast. that way if you are headed out the door, you will know what is to come. nbad to

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holland. wall street is set to open up in the red this morning. yesterday the stocks closed off the highs of the session. hiking tariffs on chinese import. trade deal of china can happen soon or just not at all. on today's watch list on housing starts and consumer confidence, earnings for macy's and fed chairman jay powell is on the capitol hill to discuss the >> the senate finance committee is holding a meeting on the johnson's are set to testify. some analysts are expected companies to point the finger in supply chains. senator chuck grassley is warning those drug makers not to blame others and take a role in fixi fixing the problem.

nerd wallet says nearly half the people who bought a home in the recent years offered more than the asking price. the report recommends buyer shop lenders before applying for r a mortgage as a way to potentially save some money. those are your cnbc headlines. back over to you. you got to be bay area, you fast. >> thank you, frank, hope you feel better. coming up next, it is a warm day for a warm cup of tea and staying in. >> we are going to see some of those showers continuing off and on throughout the day across the bay area. here is a live look outside in san jose. a couple of sprinkles. our temperatures holding steady in the low 50s. i will show you where it is raining and where it is hard. what else is ahead, coming up in the case. >> richmond side.

you can't see the head lights clearly but it is there. we'll show you what's going on. i will have an update to that spin-out in san francisco. what patients don't realize is

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yesterday at the interstate overpass. if you are driving over the pass, you will need chains. caltran is asking drivers to check its website or 511.org or regular updates. >> not fun to get up there. >> it will take hours. >> during the big storms. i had told them not to go. >> it is a tough one and it is going to slam us here. >> we'll get a lot of rain in the bay area but it is all exactly where you are. there is a c-off where it i n raining at all and where you are seeing spotlights in oakland, it is a sloppy morning where the rain is pouring and it is wind blown rain. it is making it harder to see. you need more than an umbrella, that may get flipped inside out. you need the rain gear and the

poncho and the boots. our temperatures staying cool and only holding steady in the mid-50s. a look at storm ranger, it gives us a high level of detail of where it is raining. for the north bay, we have seen a lot of yellow in red showing some pockets of rain moving through marin county and also around sonoma and also we go over to vallejo where there is some heavy rain pouring at this point and richmond, pretty much everywhere except for the south bay. as you get ready heading out this morning, we'll see this line of where the showers are happening, kind of slowly sat to the south as the atmosphere guru is still raining in some of the bay area. we are seeing it is starting to wrap up further to the north in eureka. still some off and on showers. we'll see the rain mainly

focused on the north bay again today. san francisco, oakland, there will be some break here and there, at times when that rain starts to pour, it is going to make it really hard to get out and do a lot of things because it is going to rain for several hours or going into the evening commute and it starts to once again shift to the south just a little bit going into tonight as well as tomorrow. we'll gradually start to see this breaking up a little bit but still some scattered showers here and there. we may also have a chance of a few thunderstorms for tomorrow. looking at additional rainfall totals, we gotten anywhere inch parts of the north bay. for the east bay and south bay, a little over an inch to two inches for most of us. we talked about that sierra travel, it is going to be snowing throughout the day tomorrow as well as thursday and possibly into the start of the day on friday.

snow in some of those higher elevations, mostly above 5,000 feet. this will giver us us a bit of break on thursday before early friday before the next storm system moves in. it is nice to see that we have a chance to let some of the water soaked in. still a pretty active pattern near. the next 24 hours will be the real part of the storm, the brunt of the storm that we'll watch for a lot of flooding and damaging winds. like you are saying get prepared for those wet conditions. >> kari, you talked about how it is strict in certain locations where it is going t going to ge break. san mateo, it was raining. you see that mists kicking up behind the truck and spreading across behind itself. there will be sloppy conditions all around the san mateo bridge though showing our map and weather combined right here.

the yellow shows you more activity there to the north as well as just coming across highway 237 as well. this continues to evolve, it is wet all over the bay. getting onto the lower deck, it is eastbound 180, getting onto the bridge, that's where san francisco spin-out. northbound 880, for that area as well. things are slick but we don't have any delays reported. winds can be a factor as well. back to you. well, they survived or abroad but are caught in another battle? >> thousands of veterans have left them sick with chronic diseases. our senior in vevestigatorinves bigad shaban has the story for

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visit nbcbayarea.com/responds. i will see you again tonight. 4:57 right now. nbc bay area has issued a micro climate weather alert. kari is making sure we are up to date. >> we'll be watching the water levels over the bay area, guatemala may reach a flood state and the santa cruz mountains, that'll also peak over flood stage with rainfall totals as well as alameda creek near moderate flood stage. we are going to be watching all our north ks and rivers. bay levels expected coming up next. while there is a major concern, we have water on the road. here is 101 through palo alto. i think there is another few spin-outs have popped up. president trump is in the air right now and expected to arrive to vietnam for his second

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north korea leaders are ready for the second summit. michael cohen testifies on capitol hill today. >> highway danger, several semitrucks blown over. a treacherous drive in the tahoe/reno area. "today in the bay" continues right now. that rain we are talking about hitting the north bay right now. we got new videos to show you just in our newsroom. look at it coming down in