now at 11:00 the wine country almost unrecognizable tonight. what does it mean for the vineyards? >> from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey. >> hello. i'm sara donchey. we got a second snow day in the bay area, but don't get used to it. a lot of us will be trading snow flurries for raindrops and all of us will be very, very cold. we saw even more snow where it normally doesn't fall and it was a really beautiful day up in the mountains and in the hills. in the east bay we saw people

hike up mount diablo after rangers sent out plows and we saw snowball fights on mission peak. paul will join us to kick off our weather coverage. a lot of our day was trying to keep up with shooting all of the snow video. this is what it looked like on mt. tam earlier today. >> i have a road bike and that's not the for any kind of obstacles including snowmen, but tried to make the best of it and tried to stay warm, which if your power goes out, better hope you have a wood burning fireplace. we'll see cold temperatures sticking around. let's add up the snow that fell beginning yesterday. here are the snowfall totals. mt. hamilton picked up a foot of snow, calistoga almost that amount, lexington hills in the santa cruz mountains, 4 1/2

inches and west of orinda climbing up in elevation about 3 inches of accumulation. 24 hours ago we had heavy downpours and thunderstorms rolling through the bay area, about two-thirds to almost 1 3/4 inches of rainfall. there's more on the way. we did have actual thunderstorms. all the dots on this map in and around the bay area indicate cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. there were over 200 with the thunderstorms that came through including with that small hail. that's a threat the rest of the weekend into next week, more waves of rain headed our way. showers in the central valley starting to back up towards us and we are going to see rain chances increasing as we head through the overnight hours, but dropping off as we head towards midday saturday. anything outdoors you have to get done, saturday afternoon is your time frame for that because sunday, more showers. we'll track it all coming up in a few minutes. >> paul, thank you. some of the heaviest snowfall was up in the north bay today in napa county. there's so much of it all lanes of highway 29 are closed

tonight in both directions. this is between tubbs lane and bradford road. one woman who lives in st. helena shared these pictures of the heavy snow around her property and it lost power. >> it really just started being a whiteout and i got home it was an inch or two and literally three hours later it was eight inches and the road closed at 9:00 and my husband couldn't make it back in the city, had to stay with friends and the road's been closed all day and trees have been cracking because we were part of the glass fire. >> napa valley wineries saw more snow than they'd seen in years. the vines are dormant, but one winery in calistoga had a big celebration planned today. the snow wasn't a problem at first until the lights went out. betty yu was there tonight and she has their story. betty? >> reporter: it was an inconvenient start to a new era at a brand-new winery here in calistoga. road closures and traffic kept employees from making it to the property and power was out much

of the day. friday was supposed to be a day of firsts for boutique cabernet producer and in many ways it was, the home of its new estate. the 17-acre property in calistoga was coated in snow this morning. >> unexpected. i'm from the midwest and it was like waking up back at home actually. i haven't experienced that in quite a long time. >> reporter: as state director travis rutherford dealt with his first power outage on site, he planned to spend the day feeling phone calls with clients about the announcement of the winery's opening and long anticipated debut. >> and instead spent a lot of time trying to figure out this relatively new property, get things up and running, a lot of time figuring out how to connect with people since we didn't have phones or electricity, internet. >> there's bobby snowboarding down the driveway. >> reporter: about 15 miles away at kate estate in angwin

one winemaker had fun with the fresh powder snowboarding down the driveway. the town got eight inches of snow. st. helena was also blanketed in 7 1/2 inches. highway 29 is likely to remain closed throughout the weekend due to hazardous road conditions. the weather disabled several vehicles after the snow began to fall thursday. back at momento moring, if you're wondering whether all that snow affects wine making? >> the vines themselves are doing just fine. there's nothing growing yet, so the snow doesn't hurt them at all. it's just kind of a shock to see snow on grapevines in california. >> also highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains was a mess today. snow downed trees and fallen wires shut it down most of the day. it is back open over the summit tonight and our len ramirez was there. >> reporter: well, a significant at of snow fell up here in the santa cruz mountains overnight. one chp officer estimated it to be about four inches right here at the summit.

unfortunately that led to a lot of problems, but now the roadway is clear and most of the traffic problems are over. the traffic is moving again on highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains and families are coming up to play, but the day began with traffic coming to a standstill. dozens of trees fell across the highway making it impassable. this big rig was one of several vehicles that got stuck trying to make it over the summit. it ended up blocking the lanes. >> there's still vehicles who even at low speeds, we're talking less than 20 miles per hour, are losing control of their vehicles into little hillsides and embankments. >> we have several backroads we can usually take to get over the hill. every single one was blocked. >> reporter: he was finally able to get off the mountain after dodging hazards all the way down. trees fell onto pg&e lines knocking out power to hundreds of homes and creating hazardous low hanging passageways for cars trying to get through.

>> all trees, all snow, land slide, debris, people coming wanting to check out the snow. >> reporter: one couple from san luis obispo got caught up in a snowstorm they hadn't planned for. >> woke up in the snow, no heater, power out all day. it's been interesting. >> reporter: snow fell on mountain peaks throughout the south bay. sierra road in the east foothills looked like the sierra nevada. >> it's fantastic, you know. it's fantastic. first time i see the snow here in california. >> it's so cold out here. >> all right. >> reporter: the crowds came up to the sierra vista open space preserve. one family canceled a snow trip to the sierra and brought their kids here, just a convenient 15 minute drive from the valley floor. >> last time it snowed like this i was his age and i came up with my family. so we decided to come up today. >> reporter: the chp says even though the roads are now clear,

there's still significant danger from black ice. they're advising anyone going over mountain roads to drive slowly and carefully. new tonight, we just got this video a few minutes ago of an inferno at lake berryessa in napa county. cal fire crews say about 10 to 20 houseboats and jetskis caught on fire. it started as a dock fire at markeley cove. luckily nobody has been hurt that we know of. cal fire says they've stopped the fire from spreading, but a burning part of the dock detached and is floating away. we still haven't heard how the fire started. a popular bay area radio dj vanishes. now san francisco police say they need your help to try and find him. reaction tonight from the radio station where he works. and it has been a long and violent year since russia launched its invasion into ukraine, how people here in the bay area are honoring the lives lost. and that is the sound of

brain waves turned into music, why local music students are working

. tonight a popular bay area radio show dj and host is missing. jeffrey vandergrift known as jv from wild 94.9 the jv show, he left his home on king street in san francisco at 10:00 last night. police say he is considered at risk. they didn't elaborate as to why. jv is 54 years old, about 6 feet tall with several tattoos and is known for his big personality. >> have you seen the latest video by kanye? if i'm kim kardashian and my man is saying those things, i'm mad. >> he co-founded the doghouse

show during the 1990s and 2000s bay area morning radio show. the radio station tweeted that they are deeply concerned and they are working closely with police and wife natasha and sending love and prayers to jv. today marks one year since russia invaded ukraine and since then over 8 million ukrainians have fled their homes. over 100,000 ukrainian troops have been killed or injured. the u.s. estimates russia has lost more than 200,000 troops. today the ukrainian president hosted a memorial in kyiv to honor the fallen. he said, "my children are my most important people for me. i do not see them often." a lot of support is coming from here, too. today people gathered to raise ukraine's flag outside san jose city hall. tonight's event was also part of a ceremony tied to this

year's winter fest, a two-week celebration featuring ukrainian jazz musicians and artists. >> i hope this festival will inspire you to keep supporting ukraine for those ukrainians who are here, it will bring hope and relief and it altogether will bring victory closer. >> it gives us hope that we are not alone in this fight and we will keep fighting until we win. >> winter fest runs through march 3rd. of course, our big story today has been the weather, really crazy weather yet again, more on the way, but we are really seeing some nice sunsets tonight. >> wow, look at that, nice shot, gil. this is the sun setting with mount diablo, all the snow there as the sun illuminates it from the other side. the clouds broke up enough we had similar perspectives across the bay area, a beautiful view. the sun will be in short supply over the weekend. there's more rain on the way, so whatever we have to get done indoors, this looks like a good

weekend for it. >> noted. >> off and on rain is back in the forecast tonight. it's going to be snow above 1,500 feet, limited additional accumulations of both, not a repeat of last night. showers lingering tomorrow morning. they'll be more miss than hit and a brief dry break tomorrow afternoon through tomorrow night before more rain moves in sunday and it's chilly. here's the loop of the first alert doppler the past couple hours shows rain in the central valley starting to back up towards us. we're used to things going left to right, west to east across the screen. this system is now to our south and sending some wrap-around moisture across the bay area. this is going to be very light precipitation, but you can see it's falling as snow in the higher elevations. we'll switch to futurecast and get a good handle where things are now which gives us confidence it knows what it's talking about through the night. again, limited amounts of total rainfall atop of what we've received, a few showers to start the day tomorrow. by late morning to midday our dry break begins, mostly dry

break. there might be a couple sprinkles here and there. the dry weather continues through tomorrow night into early sunday morning, but already as the sun comes up, some light showers will move in and the heavier rain will move in from late morning into the afternoon. this could be accompanied by a few thunderstorms producing more small hail, another brief dry break taking hold sunday evening and sunday night before more rain arrives on monday. this looks like it's going to be a little bit more intense and dropping a little bit more in terms of heavy rainfall, could be around drive time monday morning. we'll be evaluating that through the weekend. this is a very well organized line on futurecast, one of those narrow cold frontal rain bands that produces very intense rains, intense winds and the possibility for more thunderstorms and small hail. there's going to be some snow in the highest elevations for both sunday, monday and again tuesday with another wave of rain. we're talking about the rain/snow dividing line at 2,500 feet or maybe 3,000 feet. tonight not much in terms of

additional rainfall. we'll add about a quarter to half inch on top of that on sunday and another half inch to an inch heading through monday. it just continues adding up. it's going to put a dent in the overall drought situation. we'll get the next update from the u.s. drought monitor thursday. by that point we'll be in a dry break, good rain chances sunday, monday and tuesday. then we get a three-day stretch of dry weather to start off march. in the high sierra this is going to be another snowmaker. the snow really isn't going to stop. it's going to lessen in intensity tomorrow, but the snow fix right back up sunday. they'll get a foot and a half in placerville to close to 6 feet of additional snow in some of the highest elevations through the middle of next week. travel is treacherous that direction. right now we're seeing temperatures dropping off. 34 degrees in santa rosa, low to mid-40s elsewhere. i think you'll drop one more degree in santa rosa. most of us drop down to the 30s by early tomorrow morning. the warmest spot's around 40. highs tomorrow still cold, a good 10 to 15 degrees below normal only reaching upper 40s

to around 50 degrees. as long as we're in this rainy pattern through tuesday, we'll continue in this cold pattern with highs only reaching the low 50s. that three-day stretch of dry weather kicks in wednesday, thursday and friday. the first three days of march, but the warmest days of the seven-day forecast only pushing our high temperatures up to struggling to get near 60 degrees. before that dry stretch we have some unsettled weather to finish off february. we have sports after the break. i was getting ready to talk a little spring training. then insanity ensued in kings versus clippers. wait till you see this. in the bay, have a klay thompson and the warriors, a big w and a record setting night. >> charlie, thanks. coming up, how local music students are using melodies to unlock the mysteries of alzheimer's disease. and why police in santa cruz say do not engage with the

charlie's here. the warriors needed a little morale booster shall we say? >> we call this a get right game and when you won a get right game, tonight was the night. the houston rockets, the worst team in basketball, and quite frankly, golden state has no more time to mess around with a 13-45 team. steph curry remains sidelined. just stay afloat until he returns and then you pounce. dubs were pouncing all game. second quarter jordan poole at

the horn got them all, 17 point warriors lead at halftime. the second half, however, all about klay thompson. fourth quarter loose ball, klay in the corner gets off three, drills it and draws the foul to make a four-point play. couple plays later klay, calls iso. you can't stop me. that was thompson's tenth three of the night, but the warriors up 15. houston, we have a problem and he wears number 11 and he's about to hit number 11 from the corner, thompson again. the game never in question. it became a klay watch. will he get a dozen? he will get a dozen, no baker's dozen, but did have 12 three's on the night, finished the game with 42 points. warriors win 116-101. dubs are 4-0 when her player nb has hit morethin a game twice in one season. >> you know, i had the hot

hand. it felt great. i can't lie to you all. >> he was brilliant tonight and it's so great to see him now at the point where he can do this playing 35 minutes second night of back to back. that's big time. game of the night, we're going to give you baseball instead, kings in l.a. taking on the clippers with the double overtime. check the score, 175-171 clippers, a late three from malik monk shrunk the lead to one. de'aaron fox picks the pocket of mason plumlee and fox the other way, elbow jumper, got it to go. that's the go ahead. fox had 42 points. kings win it 176-175. that was the second highest scoring game in nba history. the box score was ridiculous. i think kawhi leonard had 40 plus. sf s with e buzzer beater

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rain, shine or snow, oakland's black joy parade is back this weekend. it's a celebration of the black experience with floats, dancers, music, activities for kids. there will also be vendors selling food and drinks. it starts at 12:30 on sunday at 14th and franklin and the event is free. ♪. bay area composers are finding a new way to use music to research the human brain. they're working with a top bay area medical center to do that and what they're finding could

help researchers learn more about alzheimer's disease. elizabeth cook takes a listen. >> reporter: at one of the top music schools in the united states, two students and a professor set out on a remarkable journey. their endeavor brought them deep into the human brain and alzheimer's disease. >> i'm going to make it very subtle. >> reporter: inside this studio at the san francisco conservatory of music, natasha frank and lyna harrison listen to an original piece they created called "the spinning wheel." but what you're hearing is more than just a piano and cello. incorporated into the composition, the electrical activity of brains measured with an eeg. special software converted them into music. some of the individuals had alzheimer's. >> it was our job to translate it into ours, into something

everyone could feel and understand. >> reporter: in the healthy brains, the music is in tune, but with the alzheimer's patients, their sleep patterns are erratic and the music turns off key. >> so when you hear this in contrast to the healthy humans' sleep, that's when it all kind of comes together and makes sense by the end of the piece. >> reporter: along the musical odyssey, two ucsf neuroscientists. >> right here you're looking at brain waves perform. >> reporter: dr. ranasinga provided data to the young composers. as to why the music goes out of tune? >> in alzheimer's disease, it's a disease of aging and a disease where the neuroand neural circuits die and what we've learned in our research is the rhythms in their brains, the electrical activity that's generated by these neurons, they change. >>or