now at noon, roads flooded, cars stuck, rivers and creeks rising fast and now an evacuation warning. >> a live look in san francisco shows the rain coming down right now a good portion of the

bay area getting wet this afternoon. good afternoon i'm michelle griego. >> i'm kenny choi. the latest storm means something different depending on where you are right now. rain and wind are hitting the north bay right now and have been since late last night. meantime the south bay has mostly stayed out of the path but that is changing and we are just getting started. >> we have live team coverage on the problems this storm is bringing, mudslides, flooding and messy roads. first meteorologist mary lee is tracking the rain and the wind, mary. it is still looking at heavy rain for the north bay. just getting a pounding more than 24 hours of steady rain for the north bay. you can see from hills burr, santa rosa, petaluma, it is pouring right now for you. and several storm reports as well with this powerful storm system looking at storm report of flooding at the straight east now closed

between shellville road in sonoma. let's show you the heavy rain, light rain over the golden gate, bay bridge, across the east bay in berkeley, concord, walnut creek. south bay dry but that will change as we go through later on today. a flood warning for the russian and napa rivers, all small streams and creeks in sonoma county. flood warning in effect there. small stream advisory for the north bay due to all of this rain as small creeks and streams. watch flood watch for the rest of the bay area. wind advisory for the coast as well as for the hills gusts to you 65 miles per hour some we're tracking the rain, we're tracking the wind. i will show you that on futurecast coming up, back to you. arnk you. storm watch continues with jackie ward live at the russian river where people are being told to evacuate.

jackie. >> reporter: kenny, it is dumping water in guerneville, the russian river is gushing and about to overflow. the water is reaching destructive levels and forcing people to evacuate. the people who live at river bend rv camp didn't have time to stop and talk. that is how dangerous the situation is getting. long time guerneville resident matt kenny was loading up 20 sand bags, this is before getting an emergency alert to evacuate immediately. >> well, you know this is coming up pretty high this time. guy the at that try to get something in front of my garage d ed mo like a rithan a place for cars to drive on, according to this poll water levels reached 3 feet before noon. earlier in santa rosa around 7:30, fire crews had to rescue a car that got stuck on the water on todd road, drivers had to be saved.

>> approximately 3 to 4-foot of water. we requested a boat to come out and assist in extracting a victim. we had multiple calls in the area with vehicles in the water. >> chef battalion explains how. >> the force of the water is definitely concerning, one of those things if you see water across the road, please turn around and head back the other way. >> reporter: this portion of the russian river is expected to crest at 49.5 feet flood stage which is 32 expected to happen around 6:00 tonight. live in guneville, jackie ward, kpix5. >> jackie ward. jackie, thank you. anne makevec continues our storm watch coverage in marin county, how is it looking out there, anne? >> reporter: yeah, it has been coming down very steadily,

michelle. can you see how high the sand is behind me. these trees in several feet of water. it's not as high as what we saw in 2005, the last 100 year flood. but this is enough to have even the most hardened local a little concerned. overlooking the swollen creek is the ranch salon in a location that's proven hazardous with its history of overflowing its banks. >> we might get close and there is more water coming from the mountains. so, yeah, it's going to be an interesting day. >> sand bags are sitting outside of most downtown businesses, others have installed floodgates in case it >> the flooding in marin county started before dawn, evacuateb

mudslide last week. the rain is causing concern that more of the hillside might come down. the plan is to install barriers possibly later today. back in san anselmo. people are taking the weather in stride even at the ranch salon, as likely its last full winter in this location. the entire building is being knocked down to make room for crews to widen the creek. while the owner loves this spot, he's ready to move. >> it's what it is, you know, ground zero, town built on top of a creek. we arexpecting a otswer you don't have the rain coming down, you have the rain coming down off the hillsides and all collecting here in this creek. so, we're going to keep an eye

on it, anne makevec, kpix5. anne, thank you. creeks in west marin are overflowing and flooding several locations. marin county sheriffs offices warning people to stay home if possible. west marin has received more than 5 inches of rain in the past 24 hours. officials saying that the reservoir spilling into spillways causing roadway closures. the storm is it causing flooding into point reyes national sea shore. park rangers are urging people to stay home. all visitor centers will be closed today. the storm is sending trees toppling over in hayward. cal trans is working to unblock this tree. flooding along the san francisco shoreline has closed the great highway today, right now the southbound lanes from lincoln street to slow boulevard are blocked off. no word yet on big mess right now at bay area airports

as we take a live look at sfo right now. an airport spokesperson said 154 flights have been canceled so far today. another 164 are delayed. right now the power is out for more than 12,000 customers across the bay area. a huge portion of that along the peninsula with more than 9000 customers without power there. in the north bay nearly 2500 customers are without electricity. you can stay with kpix5 for full coverage of the storm and how to get through your evening and morning commutes, we'll be on early tomorrow at 4:00 a.m. firefighters found a body answer stairwell at ocean beach in san francisco this morning, right now we don't know his identity or how he died but authorities do say that this is not related to last week's landslide at the fort. oakland teachers union and district representatives are at the bargaining table working to end a 4 day old teacher strike. teachers are picketing outside routes international academy

right now which slate today close at the end of the school year as part of the negotiations, teachers are trying to reverse ousd's 24 proposed school closures. new at noon tesla ceo elon musk has until march 911th to show why he should not be held in contempt of court for violating a settlement agreement that prevented him from tweeting company information without getting approval from a tesla lawyer first. on february 19th musk tweeted about the number of cars tesla hopes to make in 2019. musk faces potential punishment if he is found to hadefied that court order. president trump is now in viet nam for talks with north korean leader kim jong un, they are scheduled to have dinner tomorrow before official talks begin on thursday. it's been almost 9 months since their last meeting in singapore. for this meeting president trump may be willing to offer relief from economic sanctions, in exchange for north korea

ending its nuclear program. lawmakers are skeptical. >> optimistic that north korea summit. >> no. >> he makes promises after promises after promises. and he doesn't keep his promises and it's now time for him to show some good faith. >> north korea is under economic sanctions from u.s. and united nations, rolling back sanctions would still need the approval of congress. michael cohen criminal conduct. today cohen is testifying before the senate intelligence committee in a closed door session. committee wants to know why cohen mislead congress back in 2017 about president trump's plans to build a moscow tower in 2016, also did someone tell him to lie and were there other business deals and who were his key business partners. cohen has been convicted for

campaign finance violations and for tax evasion. right now democrats are trying to roll back the president's national emergency declaration that could syphon billions of dollars in military funding to truct a rder wa in 2 hours the house is expected to pass a resolution blocking president trump's declaration. now gop lawmakers are urging their colleagues in the senate to vote against it. ultimately you continue to see problems arise at the border, and for nancy pelosi to say that this is not a crisis is completely denying the reality of what's happening at our border. >> the resolution will then be sent to the senate, if it passes in the house so far 3 republican senators say they will support the measure. top executives from several major drug companies are on the hot seat on capitol hill. ceo'are being grilled on drug crisis after legislators

fighting rising costs. stuck on a train in the rebecca johnson stranded on amtrak, please send help if possible, thanks. >> what kept this train from moving for a day and a half and how passengers got by with supplies running out. plus snow comes falling down on to a man burying him and all caught on camera, how he got out of this scary situation.

amtrak train stranded in the oregon snow since sunday has finally arrived back at its starting point, 183 passengers were stuck on board that train for 36 hours south of eugene, oregon. their voyage came to a halt when a tree fell on to the tracks on sunday, the crew decided it was safest for passengers to remain on that train. >> rebecca done son stranded on amtrak coal system light train 11, please send help if possible. >> amtrak told passenger was long the route to expect additional delays as the train returned, about a foot of snow on the ground in that area. snow nearly buried a man in arizona. he was shoveling the snow at a country cabin in payson, this video caught it all. in seconds half his body was pinned underneath all that

snow. luckily his wife heard the crash and came to help. she got to work with a shovel, first she did take a picture. federal tax refunds are shrinking this year. refunds are down more than $500. average refund is $2640. the number of people receiving refund is is shrinking down more than 26% as of mid february. experts do caution that irs data can swing sharply from week to week. let's see how wall street is doing as we take a look at the big board, the dow is up about 50 points. here is something you don't think about as you bundle up in your down jacket, with the feathers in it plucked friendly. but, one painful practice still exists. >> ethical down really is a unicorn. >> can you trust the tag? you can see our original report tonight on kpix5 at 7:00. back to our storm watch,

expect a stormily wide. caltrans reopen 0ed east and westbound interstate 80 near the nevada state line to passenger vehicles this morning. no estimated time for reopening for big rigs. lots of snow in the high country and rain in the bay area. that's right michelle and kenny. we are tracking the rain, tracking the wind, tracking the snow up in the sierra. isolated totals of 10 feet of snow for the sierra with a winter storm warning in effect. north bay it has been going 24 hours that's steady rain for you, fairfield, pan at petaluma, golden gate into san francisco, bay bridge, richmond, her curely and concord. we do have several storm reports with this powerful storm. and this is just one of them in

hayward, the tree down blocking the eastbound tennyson road on to 880 southbound. wind damage, we see mudslides, debris flows and a lot of flooding for the port bay. daytime highs are are in the mid to upper 50s to low 60's right now. we are in the mid to upper 50s across the bay area. and very similar to how we started off the day because of this tropical air. we are looking at winds, 29 miles per hour half moon bay. 22 in oakland. 26 south, southeast for redwood city, 26 miles per hour winds out of the south in berkeley and we'll continue to see the winds increase through the afternoon and for the evening as a front kicks up the winds for us and also triggers more rain. so wettest spot is in the north bay. for this evening that steady rain finally comes to an end for tomorrow morning but shower row weather is expected tomorrow in the afternoon. let's time it out on

futurecast. here we are at 4:00 p.m. still heavy rain for the north bay into the san francisco peninsula and east bay and have we go for tonight with that heavy rain finally pushing in across the south bay. this is at 11:00 p.m. on futurecast and then looking at rain to scattered showers for wednesday. futurecast the winds are going to pick up and you can see that here we go for the afternoon into the evening, and then they finally relax and die down as we head through tomorrow morning. sunset at 6:00. and our sunrise at 6:44 tomorrow. daytime high began running in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s. here is that seven day forecast, wet and windy conditions for today. rain to scattered showers for wednesday. a few showers in the morning thursday, drying out after that. catching a break finally with sunshine on friday. and then showers for the weekend. >> so on tuesday we are already thinking of friday. >> yes. >> we like that. >> always looking ahead. >>ilahit's a rite of passage for kids giving their lost teeth to the tooth fairy, how much they are

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coming up tonight at 5:00 team coverage the storm and impact from the commute. live report from the russian river. we'll have all those stories coming up at 5:00. a tough commute for people in the morning. tougher commute in the

afternoon, right? >> that's right. afternoon and evening commute. the winds are going to pick up and see widespread rain. the heavy rain still for the north bay zooming in, st. helena, napa, navado and fairfax, mill valley, rafael. pushing into san francisco, parts of the east bay. but this is a strong and powerful storm and keeping an eye on it all day long. keep updated online as well on kpix.com. starting 30 minute us earlier tomorrow at 4:0 0 a.m., hope you will join us.

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