this is cbs news bay area with reed cowan. >> there it goes. there it goes.

oh my god. oh. >> now you see why we're calling this a drf winds knocking down trees and power lines this afternoon. vy rain across the bay area and northern california. plus thousands more tech jobs on the chopping block. the latest cuts from a parent company of facebook. good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook in for reed cowan this afternoon. we have team coverage on this first alert weather day. let's get right to meteorologist darren p day for everybody? >> yes, wind has become the headline as you just saw on the picture. a 74 miles an hour gust. >> oh my gosh. >> so we're going a to talk a lf context and give an explanation on it. but first, let's get you through the first few hours. this is the peak in terms of the rest of the day. we're still seeing gusts in the

50 miles an hour range easily. but if is a color coded map, herews. it does start tosos get a little better over the next few hours, but it is not just going to turn off. so even if we've seen the peak, and i don't anticipate we're going to hit 74 miles an hour again at sfo, it's going to take a while for these winds to come down. the takeaway on winds is the same wording we've been saying for the last two days. the high wind warning stays in effect until tomorrow morning. there is still a potential for more down trees. you don't need 74 miles an hour gusts to do that. you do that with a 30 miles an hour gust, and those will be with us. the other item we're watching is now the floods and the concerns down in the santa cruz mountains. if this is your part of the mountains, you've got to have a heightened level of awareness and still in sonoma county, think of mark west, smaller tributary creeks. we've got a flood warning for those as well and that's going to go until 5:00.

i'll be back with the complete forecast in a few minutes. got to show you what happened with these winds, and we'll take a unique look at why this storm was so capable of producing pretty intense winds. >> kind of the one-two punch. first the heavy intense rains and the winds that's causing damage. >> normally they're aligned. in this case the winds picked up. so that was an important feature. much more in a bit. >> thank you. speaking of those winds, trees are crashing down all over the bay area. katie nielsen continues our team coverage in union city where several trees slammed into a condo complex there. how is it looking where you are? >> reporter: so liz, you can actually see some o here on scene. they are trying to clean up one of the four eucalyptus trees i t have been bse tre are dozens

of eucalyptus trees all in a line behind this row of condos. now i had a chance to talk with some of the residents earlier today who were home when the trees started to come down right before noon today. one said it sounded like a bomb went off and her entire house was shaking. another said it felt like an earthquake as the trees were falling. managers for the condo complex say tomorrow they shouldav builldalings, b tut they are also going to cut down all of the remaining trees ri oemskli fthngals everyone han acuadte this because the grounds so saturated with water that when these wind gusts are this strong, even a completely healthy tree can fall over. now the city and the red cross

have set up a temporary shelter for anyone who needs some relief from the storms. that is actuallyould possibly berenio open into tomorrow if needed. but the most important part here, liz, no oast when eondo complex.esam dow o all uave bee safely evacuated. as soon as they're able to cut down all of the remaining trees tomorrow, residents should be able to come back home. >> yeah, thank goodness there were no injuries. as we saw, the trees came down really hard really fast, so there is some bright light there. repos ofhoserees.incross the bay look at what happened right as one of our photographers interviewed a neighbor in redwood city. >> watching this young lip pus, and i started to tell him it looks like it's leaning. there it goes.

oh my god. oh! any way there goes my neighbor's house. we watched it as it started to lean over and then this is the tree that was holding it up. and now it's all gone. >> this fell across highway 92 at half moon down boulevard to main street earlier. fortunately no one was hurt. the trivalley is also feeling the powerfulds. liette goodric shows t nditions downtownave to tell yos windy today, by want to show you what happened in the last hour here at noontime. this tree just came tumbling down. now crews are putting it up and they're puttinghe trees throughout the city right now. >> reporter: now along with all

th coming down, the flags have been flapping around all afternoon. >> this is really scary in san rafael. both pg&e and the police department closing off the neighborhood due to those power lines. this is on grand avenue and linn lane. meanwhile in santa rosa, this tree came crashing down. branches were tangled on orchard avenue. the tree snapped one utility pole into three pieces and damaged a and some h officiallye above floodt strtage.ee justin andrews was out there all morning long. >> reporter: this rain has not stopped since the early morning hours. and we can tell that the san lorenzo river has been swollen drastically over the last

several hours. we also spotted a couple walking down river road here. this is dylan and amanda. their daughter named river, they lived here in this neighborhood since august. they've been watching the river levels very closely since january. they put a lot of their stuff in storage and on higher ground. store coveraged bridge to see how high the waters are. >> all our stuff is out. so anything below five feet in height is like moved. we feel a lot better prepared. >> letting them know how high the waters are just in case they need to get out in just a minute's time. i'm justin andrews. i'll send it back to you. >> it was a wet drive in san francisco this morning. a lot of drivers dealt with the minor street flooding there. mud slides and down trees,

causing problems on bay area roads. our jocelyn moran has been driving throughout the bay area with a look at some of the damage. >> reporter: it's been a day for anyone who has headed out the door onto the roadways, dealing with heavy downpours throughout the bay area. now we're dealing with the rain here. we have seen quite a few things really throughout the morning long. we actually went up highway 35 and to say it was windy is really an understatement. we felt it in our vehleics awe o get to the mud slide on highway 35 at alpine road. that area is blocked off. actually the park ranger was telling us this is just a couple of mud slides that they have seen today. then on highway 13, a tree blocked traffic going northbound. chp says the tree was blocking the onramp in the slow lane, causing issues for cars trying to swerve to avoid the tree. commuters had it tough this morning. we were here earlier. lanes on 680 northbound were

blocked off after chp tells us the big rig jackknifed inor a lot of commuters. again, you can see it early back here in san mateo, where we are starting to see the winds pick t aup hyonguut oaneomourse,li t . >> all right, thank you so much. in the northbound, the rain caused some hillsides to give way. a small mud slide blocked one lane in bohemian highway. now let's take you to monterey county. about 2,000 have evacuated as emergency repair work on the pajaro river. the levee continues. officials say it could take a week to complete. the frustration among those who are left behind. >> there could be a cascading parade of other problems that

we're seeing coming from this when it comes to the agriculture fields and the economy in general. they resed about 235 people from the pajaro area. now people have been told not to drink the water because of potential contaminants. this all started when the levy broke, water gushing into parts of watsonville. this is what people are dealing with three days later. giving us a tour, showing t its house and even worse inside. >> you could see the water moving all the way through and it is full of water in the basement. >> we don't have any food or water. we have one packet of bottled water, and so that is why i decided to leave my home. >> and some who decided to ride up have been abandoned down as the waters have largely receded. but the others who did leave will be able to get back in and they can't as the town is basically sealed off.

and the resources and the monterey county resources agency, they say the crews are working 24 hours a day to patch up the levee break. now our devin fehely is on the ground in pajaro right now. he'll have the very latest there at 5:00. >> thank you so much. we're following a shelter in place situation in san francisco right now. it is in effect at 555 california street because of a glass falling from the high-rise and also street closures in that area. people have been sharing the view from their neighborhoods online and you can see jocelyn moran walking through the parking lot. we'd love to see your pictures. you can tag us using the hashtag on kpix. we are tracking commissions on air, online, always streaming on cbs news bay area. still ahead, thousands more tech employees will soon be out of work. we'll tell you about another

round of layoffs at meta. and plus when we get rain, check out the sierra. a closer look at the snow as it piles up there in the

to> more job cuts in tech da 10,000 workers as a part of ceo mark zuckerberg's year of efficiency. facebook's parent company announced the cuts this morning, set to happen over the next few

months. this comes after an leave 5,000 open jobs unfilled. now that the federal vementrn signature asbank, the next step is investigating to find out why the banks collapsed in the first place. we have details from capol hill. >> reporter: cbs confirmed the department of justice has launched an investigation into the failure of silicon valley bank. president biden hinted at possible investigations monday while announcing the government is guaranteeing customers will not lose their money. >> the important question of how stese banks got in the ums rccewhatann ihe t happened and e responsible can be held accountable. in my administration, no one is above the law. >> reporter: the washington post and new york times are reporting the doj is looking into the

actions of senior silicon valley banking executives. svb's ceo issued a letter on tuesday, urging them to not only leave their deposits in the bank, but reinvest the money they took out over the last week. the criminal investigation is one thing, but there's political fallout to the bank failure as well. republicans on capitol hill are pointing their fingers squarely at president biden. house speaker kevin mccarthy tweeted the reckless spending caused record inflation and rapid interest rate hikes that broke family budgets and banks too. now overall inflation increased 6% in february. still high, but less of the 6.4% in january. lately the federal reserve has been raising interest rates in an attempt to cool inflation. and the chairman recently told congress more hikes would be coming. but that was before the collapse of silicon valley bank and signature bank. there is a real question as to what the fed will do. there are many who believe that

the instability of the financial banking system, even though it is just small banks that that could be enough to put the feds plans onor next week. that they could pause, but also tell us that it's not over. >> but cbs news binessst says t is a pause, it would only be temporary because the fed is committed to bringing inflation down. all right, let's get back to our weather. it's a first alert weather day. ile the bay area gets soaking rain and those damaging strong winds, the sierra is seeing a lot of white stuff, all that snow. more than a foot of fresh snow at the uc berkeley central snow lab this morning. and this comparison really puts things into perspective. take a look. >> in the summer when you go down to the entrance of the lab, it looks like this. but right now, it's a little bit snowier there. you can see actually the little emergency exit on the top window there that you saw on the

previous photo. so the way we get down to the lab right now, it's by going down into the snow. so that's what it looks like to go outside right now. >> and that is just wild, darren. that's not canada, that's not alaska. that's not those areas where you see the deep snow. this is tahoe, california snow. >> yeah, they're on pace for what will likely end up as maybe tieing for the second snowiest winter at that location. ann schwartz up there has become a celebrity, having a little bit of fun up there. he'll have more pictures with a couple of more storms with snow coming. i'll get to that in a second. i want to talk about why the winds were so impactful and so different from the atmospheric river we had last thursday and friday. gog to look the bay area

from a unique orientation. the storm accumulated last thursday and friday, we have an atmospheric river. but what we got from this storm had an added element to it. let's put things a little more front and center and the center of this storm actually, let's pull that up. the area of low pressure came pretty much right off the coast and it happened in the late morning, early afternoon today. the location of that l, the area of low pressure sitting right off of the coast of the bay was able to really pull on the winds a lot more than last week's r storm. last week this l came on shore in oregon. so what we need is for that low to finally move on and over the next few hours, we are going to see this thing nudge and watch the colors change on the map as you start to get into the yellows, the greens, the winds will start to lighten, but it will take some time before that happens. we still got to get through about the next 12 hours really. remember that high wind warning goes until about 5:00 in the

morning. if we watch the futurecast through and through, you can see what things look like. notice how much quieter it starts to get once we get towards really late tonight and tomorrow from a rain and wind perspective. but boy those winds were intense. when we watch them kind of calm down through the afternoon another way, putting some numbers on it. so remember the high wind warning stays in effect until 5:00 a.m. and the point was trying to stress on this earlier. even if we don't get the 74 miles an hour wind gust because that low will finally move away, we are still going to have 20 to 30 miles an hour wind gusts, that time period. you could have trees go down anywhere in the bay. still monitoring the flood water in the santa cruz mountains. that's for the san lorenzo river. the community would be the closest to that, but that's not the only location that will need to be aware of the banks and the san lorenzo river through matthew six. in the north bay sonoma county, also got a flood warning. you have a flood watch if you're not near those locations. meaning it's not imminent like the two other places where the

flooding is happening now. the flood watch tells you we've had enough rain. there will be enough water flowing across a super saturated landscape that we're going to continue to see minor streams and creeks and roadways. that is still possible all the way through tomorrow, even if the heaviest of the rain has passed. when we watch it again on futurecast, you can see how the system clears out. so there is good news on this tomorrow. we'll get a break. when you look at the seven-day forecast, we don't have any first alert days on here, good news. but i know you look at friday through tuesday time frame and you're like what's up with all those rain icons? none of those are going to be as intense as this was. their systems are not going to be fueled by any atmospheric rivers, just more of the run of the mill. we won't get all those days. right now it's a muddy looking forecast where you could get a few showers on either of them, but we will start to pick those days off and take rain out of them over the next few days. but for right now, there is a chance for at least some minor

rain on all of them. all right, liz, back to you. >> we certainly need a break, thanks. still ahead, how a freshman could be the key for

the tournament begin on thursday. saint mary's is in it for a second straight year and it's the first timer who could be the

key to winning. >> reporter: saint mary's equals their highest seed in history, week one on the team last year, and this year's squad and last year's is very similar with one big difference. who is one of the top freshmen in the country where nothing has phased him so far this season. and they know this point guard will be ready for the big dance. >> this being the biggest dance of his career. do you need to cater to him differently than you do to the seniors? >> no. he knows and he has seen that smoke and the best of it. he has seen the best guys all the way up and he knows it, i don't have to explain. >> i'm charlie walter for the madness minute. still ahead, nasa is sharing a rare image. what is so special about

coming back here at 5:00, we head back to pajaro in monterey county as crews work around the clock to repair a levee. check this out, the james webb telescope caught a rare picture of a star about to become a supernova. this is spectacular. nasa says the star is 30 times the size of our sun.

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