live, from the bay area's news station, this the kron 4 morning news. >> good morning everyone, tracking the storm this morning to get the bay area. here's video from mill valley heavy downpour led to flooding under highway 1011 motors had needed a bomb from the california highway patrol to get free from the water. from there to hillsboro, strong winds, heavy rains by the tree down to a house. this is near crystal springs road. and also snapped a power line with 700 people into the dark in sunday. san francisco, people worse out walking down market and castro it came down in a burst, it is expected to taper off. more were simmering county for see to

creek, a fallen tree to get a utility pole. california highway patrol was out there and what baker cutting down trees there were hanging a bid to heavy on car lines. pacific gas and electric company did not want to see any more customers lose power so that's where they're at their trying to clear things because on the power goes out it's usually because the tree takes down the power lines with that. this morning, the reds still wet. but it is not raining right now driving into work as us some spots where it was completely dried that was great. will that continue to the morning? >> it is raining, showers to the north, dennis and a set bay spotty showers. it is a good bet the to drive toward cannot see any rain. but not all the bay area is dry, rainfall, over the past three days san francisco we vaccine more than 2 in..

napa to wrenches, santa rosa 1.83, almost 3 in. in san rafael. same story in oakland. san jose 1 in.. this is quite a bit. we have much more to come. storm tracker 4, showing you were the rain is coming down, santa rosa down to petaluma some heavier showers and back to cell to the north of inverness pushing towards 101 has rates of more than 1 in. per hour. pretty heavy downpours making their way towards petaluma, novato. highway 37 a few sprinkles. reagan to these bay, san leandro from a word. heading on to livermore. south bay, spotty showers. right now, sitting in the 40's and '50's. 51 san francisco 50

oakland. future cast take you to the day 10:00 chance of rain around, well we'll see is light showers the chance of rain continues towards months of the day today. tuesday, hit german showers. we could actually see the intensity picked up. reagan's the evening heavier down doors to the north bay. wednesday, a chance of rain continues. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. just to let you know we have gone on, a couple of fridays and the here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. again on and off showers for tuesday, the next break will be thursday, the end of your work we should stay dry. but the rain returns by the weekend. >> thank you, starting at

the morning with a hot spot, your ride to san francisco said unto its irreverent, you haven't returned the call blocking to write and lanes. emergency crews are on the scene. this should be blocked for good time. renown not much the whistler ounce. bridge check, live look to the bay bridge, no problems come easy conditions. a-nine minutes in the for the macarthur maze towards fremont. san mateo, a good alternative, no problems to contend with in either direction you can still see lots of space between cars source and the right hand side traffic heading towards the peninsula. one loss look of the golden gate, no problems to report just a couple cars on the span. those headlights headed in to san francisco i just checked the road sensors problems. well. >> to write today is

expected to be the busiest day of the year for mailing your christmas cards if you want to get it in time to family and friends. more than 800 million pieces of mail are expected in the system today today is the deadline for greeting cards, holiday letters that will arrive in time for christmas. prayer the milken said tamara and express wednesday. if you're up early to get to the airport you are not alone, today is expected to be the busiest travel day before christmas. this is a live look at the oslo airport officials say 120,000 people will have flights to date.in and out of ar today. no delays at any bay area airports reported rain now. jobless over the weekend were affected by the rainfall dollars in

shares as the delays. >> you can see quite a few delays in the departure monitor of us oppose sunday. this address flight to phoenix or about three rows behind and so words is right. creek my original flight was grossly route to 3:00 p.m. now my fight is at 10:00. >> its colors. >> she's done everything to keep yourself busy and to, or from 08. in the four managers of many delays on sunday because of the heavy rain and its emphasis go but heavy snow in paris france led to the cancellation of this man's fight he plans to sleep as a pro to the next flight to paris three is sorry. >> at a three-year for three days. at the heart out.

>> it will be tough >> hopefully they're sure to record >> and order fresh as a sport more delays leading up to christmas bad timing causes is a very busy time ago 122,000 people were expected to fly in and out of services today and another 120,000 tomorrow. >> again at this point no delays are being reported at of any bbay area airports. >> one engineering research most of the area that left thousands of our good is to passalong which isn't pacific gas and electric company should have their power back on and by now. >> up to 7 in. of rain has

aired a caused minor flooding and mudslides. more than 3 in. of additional rain is expected. 50 ski run it looks like a postcard. beautiful, snow was on the ground should be some good skiing over the next several days. louisa will tell us how much over the next couple of days. you can get the weather any time at our website, for gascon a temperatures and live radars lock on the www.kron4.com and click on the weather tab. coming up, the latest on the wikileaks situation, here's a live look good side was for you it's going on. james lick, look to their road way pretty clear at this time every training its light rain. louisa august a full update.

welcome back to here is a

look at your 7 day around the bay. you can see partly cloudy, showers off and on thursday and friday partly sunny and then the rain returns next weekend. make sure to bring an umbrella it will be off and on. no word this morning and weather bird is running trains brought to normal many writers yesterday were late because of a problem at a substation. it happened just before 2:00. several are some trains running from san francisco how to share the truck. expected to be fair to the morning commute several phone calls at this point we're not sure of the problem has been fixed keep the here we will in no. world news, police arrested a " plant men in raids on three cities over suspected

you kate tears and pot. authorities say the suspect will be questioned the city rests for necessary to ensure safety. no more details have been given. no. 3 is calling some of curia artillery drew is reckless. it says it will retaliate as it has threatened. after the shows and did they resisted striking back because of firings ounce. south korean shells landed farther south of the north shore. the now- share of the south after the astros last month. two marines and two civilians were killed. the latest on wikileaks, the seeker u.s. diplomatic cable released by the web site reveals that for least one week the

facility has a radioactive material was completely unprotected. it cites an unnamed official expressing concern to u.s. embassy official about the storage facility after the guards removed and close camera had to reimburse it for months. one week later the material had been moved to syria. the of this is that on the longer process transactions for wikileaks following similar actions by several other financial institutes. the king said it believes the site may be engaged in activities that are among inconsistent with our policies for processing payments. a giant mastercard, pay paul that have stopped handling payments for wikileaks. today a look at market

airlines, stock futures are mixed, late trading will be seen during the shortened trading week for wall street the market will be closed for christmas. data compressed week for the financial markets all packed into wednesday and thursday among the readings do or those on economic growth new and existing homes cells, new jobless claims. shoppers came out in droves over the weekend that is expected to be the third busiest time of the year it is a crucial weekend for retailers after a strong november sales have to drop. coming up, we just learned burt does not expect any delays morning. they say all of the equipment will be out of the to buy for 30. >> height i am from i want to wish my family happy

holidays. >> to us gains, i want to say merry christmas and happy new year to felicia, mark, we miss you.

what a match the kron form morning news, for 3:00 p.m. we are waking up to some showers. storm tracker 4 is live at the north bay, take to ensure you the heaviest rain meant to santa rosa as he had run down 101 we have a cell a perching petaluma. rainfall rates coming down more than 1 in. per hour. also along highway 7 as he read to vallejo, some wet roads there. through livermore seeing some raindrops to danville. so i showers. very late in nature. current

temperatures, 46 for santa rosa, 43 napa. 50 oakland. sulfate low 50s. peter, widespread rain chances continue. in looks that fills a pretty light for much of the day chance of rain continues into the evening by your tuesday more hit or miss showers looks like a better chance rainbows and by the evening 6:00, better chances we could even see some heavy rain late tuesday night. wednesday, left over, clearing as we head towards the later part. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. shows us a that the next chance for some dry weather happens on your thursday. the rain returns again on saturday and sunday. check and your commute their care.

>> accents outbound red after army street through has been cleared, now back to deal with. getting at the door to bridge check, bay bridge, westbound 80. nice, easy conditions, no problems from the shore freeway. west of 580. these conditions, say mateo bridge, west and east bound 92 good ride. no problems to report. now back up at the toll plaza, no proms getting to the bridge along highway 101 or the nimitz. golden gate, nice, easy. no cars within camera shot. no problems. down in the south bay, we're not talking in the hot spots just yet. a live look good north and southbound 101 right near trimble did it cruz. the camera shaking

around so might be a little windy. >> not only tracking traffic but the storm hard weekend for people living in marin they were hit heavy with the storms. drivers are having a tough time getting out. because of the flooded streets and parking lots. reggie kumar shows us >> this is hallowed sunday morning near the 101 freeway the entire area was flooded with several feet of water. so deep that the california highway patrol had to divert traffic. drivers to park their cars were warned about the rask apart your anyways. water rinse the inside of this car. when we're there the order had been arrived yet. to lange's on the highway also flooded, come some barriers along the lines to

try and read people from driving into the water. oakland a large tree toppled over and the storm and fell on top of this home. the embargo is so strong they crashed through the roof for some of the booster to fund observers to live and notes removed. reggie kumar, kron4 news. >> local emergency as to heavy rains wallace region. left many neighborhoods dealing with high waters some honest stacking sandbags in hopes of staying dry. no reports of serious damage the rollout responders to quickly announces county research. the national weather service says nearly 3 in. of rain had fallen by 6:00, making it the wettest december on record. winter storms are putting a damper on the holiday spirit, it is not want to let any time soon as

one of the busiest travel week sticks of starting today. >> college natures on demolition derby this no place for turned into is that inside for drivers in washington. >> my neighbor ran it to my truck that she hit him then a 44 hit the jeep. no, seriously hurt for the west strong winds and gusts down trees and vines in seattle. 100 dozen people lost power at the height of the storm in california at/writing turnarounds' into rivers drivers were stranded in streets. >> mike your friends cars coming down the street it stopped. it's flooded. it's done. >> homeowners are concerned about my size. but tree in unstable earth toppled on to this home. the ground reserving some much

authorities were in the house itself will slide. >> your 10 minutes to get that is what the judges. >> the situation will get worse as more rain was in. higher elevations of to 10 ft.. good news for skiers once numbers prove >> in the rose. >> you can get the weather any time on our web site forecast, temperatures and live radars to a clock on the www.kron4.com click on the weather. federal investigators are looking into the cause of a deadly natural gas pipeline. they're saying they may need witnesses to testify a better hearing early next year. due to the intense interest in the disaster and the safety issues. they have held pitt public hearings for of times in the box five years including in the case of the costco burst on the

cane and in a ship that hit in november 2007 spilling 53,000 gal. of oil. they voted this weekend on whether to roll out such a hearing on the september 9th explosion there will announce the results soon. >> many victims and the gas line explosion still did not know how their taxes will be affected. yesterday in san bruno jackie spear levittown on meeting between victims and the irs. she call their representatives from the irs for not being clear with their answers. >> what i want to do is report back to the commissioner of the revenue service that he should do the sampling which is used his destruction so we are how to go to the charade frankly as it relates to the money received by these persons who lost their alms, are coping enough and don't need the ira's reading

down the necks. (applause) she argues that money received after disaster should not be suspect to income tax. much more weather tropical news coming out. good news bart is no lockers in the tracking to the trans bay to should resume full service at 4:30 a.m. still there is consensus, there should be ran off and on debt the day, nothing compared to resolve the weekend.what we sawe weekend.

welcome back, bridge check, here's the bay bridge toll plaza you can see traffic is very light. the roadway, is is slightly slicks, driving in from fremont there are some pots is where was completely dry. louisa says iran and on and off. expect a blood spot. san mateo, obviously it is still moving just fine at this time. tell it, cars going from hayward to the peninsula, no promise. golden gate, it easiest traffic of the mall. you can see traffic is light, no problems, it does not look like it's raining. news around the bay, two men

killed to the people and injured over the weekend, three separate shootings, the first reported just before 11:00. the victim died at the scene, a second victim was taken to a local hospital in stable condition. another shooting reported around to 3:00 p.m. in the ninth as a lack of international. that victim is in critical condition. suspect has been arrested. third shooting around 3:30 a.m. in the 2000 law of east 26th street. that man died at the scene. officers are looking for a man who robbed a gas station in vacaville. police received a 911 call from the cleric at the usa gustation. police discovered that the suspects had forced his way into the business shortly after it closed

ordered the clerk to the ground. he may off with an undisclosed amount of cash. but the scene on threat. the description is fed, officers believe he was a black man, unknown 8, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 230 lbs.. long black hair, last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, pulled the tape over his head. authorities in mexico are still investigating the cause of a muscle or oil explosion that killed a least 20 people. it shows is started from the illegal extraction a while. it happened in some we are seeing , it initially affected 5000 residents the fire from the blast incinerator cars, houses, trees will turn streets into and declaring reverse. facebook co-founder and ceo has started his visit to china with a tour of the office's top search engine

wear his own slate moraines blocked. he is meeting with ceos no word on what they're discussing. the director says nominee in china are familiar with facebook. coming up the kron 4 morning news, a word from one of our soldiers overseas. >> i would like to save our love to my sister and the rest of a family happy holidays, i love you. i miss you. >> of it like to say happy holidays to my family and my friends and family back home. >> happy holidays everyone. i would like to say in a

lull to my son got check and all my family and friends in los gatos. happy holidays.

>> good morning, still sings in in this morning, the shot of the bay bridge press turn the dry there are some spots coming down this morning mostly cloudy, a few shares stood the morning into the afternoon chance of showers. we might see a few isolated thunderstorms. we will continue to see those temperatures staying in the '50s and '60s. storm tracker 4 are showing you all the wet weather up and to the north bay contracting heavier cells just aren't

partial group petaluma. will other stretches of the way down from santa rosa to novato. you can see how 37 to novato over to vallejo bringing down heavy downpours. just starting to see the showers left into livermore still spotty. highway 17 as he had an ounce santa cruz still getting quite a bit of wet weather. here's rather getting head down into seven california check or the heavy heavy rain coming down, snow as well. several warnings in effect, flood warning in effect for san rocking. that means flooding is imminent. flash flood watch and loss santa less in) areas are the most runs. there's a bit worse down to

seven california. 46 for santa rosa, 51 and to san francisco, low 50s to the east bay, redwood city. 47 livermore. future cast with the key to the day, just a light chance of showers through 10:00. affecting a good portion of the rest your day keeping a good chance of showers around. similar to this morning. hit or miss, tuesday on and off showers through the day. better chance to the latter part of your day, learn a clock downpour's into the north bay. wednesday best chance being in the morning. flaring up as we head into the later part of your day under wednesday. drive for the end of your work week. rate now, a single color pattern and will we've been seeing low pressure to the north, funnel of clowns and moisture. it is dangerous to

the south. northern portion of all the moisture that is continuing on through. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay., wet weather the next couple of days off thursday, freof days. >> good to go, no hot spots, spots or even an accident easy conditions all around the bay, indicated westbound 80. you can still see a few cars in to san francisco. no problems at the pay gate, meeting lights are off. easy 8-9 minutes from the foot of the macarthur maze charts san francisco, cortines bridge to the macarthur maze 17 manager. easy rawlins of foster city or hayward. san mateo bridge conditions no proms, nice and light across the span nice and light between cars.

now back the toll plaza. golden gate, barely any cars on the road just a couple of cars in to san francisco. not many had light, just checking the road sensors note from iran, novato. highway 37 over to the east bay 9 minutes. crosstown look well, no proms on the james lick or inbound the ride from this camera shot towards san francisco under 15 minutes. if your bypassing bay area traffic instead heading up north chain requirements in effect for 80. he will need them for highway 50. quick note, high weight 0 is currently closed. >> to will. there are some parts getting pounded by rain, some people have

problems just getting around present during kelly out there to show as having gone around. >> rate here you can see one of the drivers is having a hard time i am on hard street restore this its 7 ess. take a look to this huge puddles. you get an idea how much rain has really fallen. i did say this is a 30 ft. long 10 for a wide many lake. the department of public works has been accounted here to give drivers to have up the the need to slow down. look, let me show you the water is actually coming up over the sidewalk. encouraging on the pavement if you take a look, i will put this ruler and the water. when they zoom in, you can see that this panel of standing water is 7 in. high.

>> the post office is preparing for what is predicted to be the disease million day of the year with an 800 million pieces of mail and expected in the system today. today is the deadline for setting creep kurds, so they're ready for christmas. prairie malcolm be sent to mop express mail wednesday. if your to get into your family and friends by the holiday. if your a burly, you're not alone today is expected to be the busiest travel day before christmas. simmons is the international, a live look, there's our plan are ready at the gates. today, as of officials say 120,000 people will go in and out of the airport as they get around the country. the delays are reported dead of any airport, that was in the case over the weekend travelers at sfo have been

slowed down by the rain. call-in shows the delays. >> sfo sought refuge delays because of heavy rain and san francisco. some flights were delayed by as many as three hours, more rain in the forecast import officials expect to see more delays. it is bad timing because this is a very busy time of year. 120,000 people are expected to fly in and out of stanford's roster today and another 120,000 tomorrow. >> once again at this point no delays are being reported. and share rinceau to foster the bay area is today, the rain and heavy rains that thousands without power in several places. good news, pacific gas and electric company should have the power back on at this time. forecasters are warning that the worst may

be yet to come. up to 7 in. of rain has are indeed caused minor flooding. the national weather service says more than expected by wednesday. you can get the weather forecast. lot of kron4 and click on the weather town. coming up, bart says there are no longer any problems on the trans bay to. that problem has been fixed eight minutes ago. bart train should be running smoothly. heading outside, a quick look at the james lick. speaking of smoothly, no proms there.

welcome back, here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. showers off and on. for to me on thursday christmas eve it will be partly sunny.

>> at a live look from top of 50, looks like a postcard shot and i said there. he never see any cars, i'm sure caltrans will be doing at their clearing up their rates to make sure their roads are smith. all this was a good thing for those in the slopes. >> side blowing snow made for a fresh covering as your role. for die-hard skiers not even the storm could keep the mob. >> it's really pottery. that's why it's about. >> they had to close down and lifted to the high winds. >> it was too dusty the

people more comfortable on the left. it goes down, and opens the back up. getting up the mountain may not be as easy, rain turns from what to blasters no nicking of el arching controls or an effect. long lines and travers pulling over to jane out. >> kind of fun. >> crews are working around the clock to notify drivers and keep the roads clear attacks that may become harder as the snow continues to like it this year. you can get the weather any time on our web say we prefer you what louisa but to do what happens our website you and your forecasts, temperatures and live radar registered www.kron4.com >> a study says nearly 1

million kids in the head states live in areas with no liquor to of the doctor. the promise and the number of children tartars about where they're located some of the areas over saturated with pediatrician's other parts of the nation have few or none. moving doctors suggest that every doctor would have the pediatrician or a family doctor nearby. a new study released by the in bennett the working group shows a harmful chemical could be coming from your faucet. top water in 31 other 35 cities is highly contaminated. the chemical was discovered in a water slide in california sparking a massive lawsuit. this is the highest contamination levels according to the setting low, 8 and riverside california. it has been

linked to stomach cancer and tumors. coming up, but is having no problems this morning as the trains are running just fine through the trans bay to. no problems. >> hello, and we're here a woule to say hi to our families in california and ratio at the holidays. >> i'm from africa, this goes into to know my daughter and your,, grant sailers, william and alley incentives as the california gust you with a merry christmas and happy new year and stay navy. >> captain brown, i want to give a shattered to my

loving mother and my little sister rachel. incidents as california and all of my girlfriends happy holidays. i am sending you a lot of love.

clocking in the 13-14 nets between 80 and 101 golden gate, no problems. so but to

san francisco easy, nevada city limits 23 minutes at reinsurer, no promise to report to albany, traffic is moving at the limit, no proms towards berkeley, up from three as he reached the bay bridge toll plaza. well. >> tracking the storm, mill valley has been hit hard by all of that storm, all of the rain came down. ed had drivers giving them a very difficult time. reggie kumar his their checking things out. >> after heavy rains move through you concede there's still water left in this parking lot caltrans had to close off this area some people who left their cars in this parking lot will get a surprise. they will find their cars to have water in them. it is advised if you

do have to use this parking lot to parked in the upper portion a lot because it does not lead there.blood there >> the rain did not state just there, it went all over the bay area we said dave guingona down to redwood city where a mobile home was so deep water some of the residents were stranded inside their homes. >> this is the mobile home parking lot. some of the areas were so deep bed many of the residents can leave their homes. the boots to abandon the car. >> to them to driving did not want to drive because of a city. this woman could back any further. speaking it scares me. speaking and

this kind of scary, though once you get used to it. speaking is never seen them like this this morning we heard her courage and hard head to prevent them? >> we camera hearing from them falling, drifting in the notion that year. >> public course were popping up the water, they say the water was backed out due to a high tide, heavy rains. the mobile home is located on the shore of the bay, to the land is below sea level. there was flooding along east bayshore adjacent to the mobile home park. this entire block was under water. flooding of the way around the building this painting co. leapt like it was about on its own. >> however says a dozen rain, they're wrong. the

rain is increasing to fall, more concerned about mud slides to win one hamas injected eight. please >> \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ >> we heard a huge boon, it didn't sound normal. >> their woken by this tree cashing in their urine. >> we're in bed sleeping, we looked outside, we could see our fence that runs along the street one ticket after the other started to fall over. >> the one that side. speech we saar river mud coming down the help. my husband said we have to call 91. >> emergency crews responded, that wasn't the 25 lbs. clark got but it was there as there was an immediate danger the foundation was threatened.

>> this said your 10 minutes to get out. >> as they packed the fired from and where to cover the debris blocking that blocked. a woman at the street is nine months pregnant. but as they were to more trees started bending, the chief says unfortunately the worst is yet to come. >> significant rainfall, the ground is very saturated we have these significant mudslides which are large open scope and volume, they pose a very significant threat. speaking after living here 17 years ricks says that the price you pay for the vip view. >> beautiful place to live boxer for days like today. >> we will continue to follow this saturation, you can get weather any time. we

will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments.

welcome back, here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. rain is nachman to leave a solemn, the next few days. fortunately, thursday, friday here is a look at your 7 day around the bay.sonnyd the weekend. now, a look at the weekend box office jeff bridges drawn to the top spot with a $43.6 million opening weekend, the movie reed is the story line started in 1982, while bridgeses was hurtled into a deadly virtual reality known as the grid. yogi bear fell flat, open how weak no. 2

was 16.7 million, chronicles of an are barbia 12.4. if your stargazing there something you don't want to miss the last lanner crash's 1141 < 3.5 hours. dramatic range of colors during eclipsed the lemond, the earth, and the sun so that the rays are shielded by the man, it is expected to turn red at one point, the last was back in june. still ahead, we're following the bart situation, we have learned that there should be no problems for any of the rudder system ride really know for sure. before that, a couple of words from our soldiers. speakpa >> i would like to say happy

holidays america's to our family in the bay area. >> high dramahigh drama. >> we want to say hi to work-family is and happy holidays in california. happy holidays to our family. happy new year. >> i would like to say that to my mother, my brother and sisters. happy holidays have a good christmas and new year's. i miss you guys. how good holiday.

5:00 a.m. on the kron from morning news on monday

december 20th powerful weekend storms bring rain and flooding to roadways. more rain still to come. >> heavy winds knocked down trees, the story here's cutting power lines. >> of the rain turned dismal and the sierra will take a look and all the fresh water. >> bad weather across the world gunfights and delaying travel for thousands. >> let's start with bay area weather let's go to lisa. speakpad still picking up some raindrops, especially to the north bay, heavier down forests to petaluma, heavier rain through sonoma, having gone over to american can in seoul airport, the cancer raindrops' continued as the showers river highway 37 as he had onto vallejo. cesspit almost to the wet weather is content to morgan hill. highway 17 as you had run down to santa cruz. 7

california, this is where the bulk of the moisture is. heavy rain, do san martino down into less dangerous. flood warning in effect. which means flooding is in mint. /flood washed into loss angeles, all this burn area seeing a threat of flooding because they don't have their route system from the trees to observe it. quite a bit of severe weather down there. our area, 40's and 50's 51 degrees to san francisco. future cast as the key to the morning, continuing to see a chance of showers through much of the day light rain expected maybe even isolated thunderstorm. heather mist tuesday we will continue to see some rain into wednesday tapering off towards the latter part of your day. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay.

next chance of dry weather is on thursday and friday, rain returns to the bay area just in time for the weekend. check and your commute. >> bridge traffic, or is back on time no longer any proms of trieste this issues. so far, on time. the rich, light traffic as you can see. last friday really light traffic around the bay. we may catch a break and seasoning and that this morning. san mateo, pretty good right here, no backups are delays, light traffic on the non commute direction headed east bound the ride back towards hayward of foster city. a little heavier than the usual seat. very leery now, smooth trip in from marin county.

sensors indicate no problems, we're incident free for the ride is up all the way from the 37 interchange down to the waldegrave. >> tracking the storm in the bay area and mill valley, but it is a heavy downpour combining with a high tried led to flooding under hardware 101 you can see one car had to get a little bump. drivers to left their cars their return to see their cars flooded. people were soaked, it could see the rain falling market imposter. area's and then it started to taper off. >> lot of flight delays, flights delayed in and out, flights around the star mayor was delayed for three hours. many travelers were

frustrated. >> my response i was leaving it to 3:00 p.m. now my present slightly as the 10:00. >> more rain is on the way, ss jose hundred 20,000 people will be in a net today alone. >> things are even worse across europe, france aviation authorities freezing temperatures cause traveling says. that could mean waiting even longer. >> at 3 here because there's no artels supplied. speech three days or smart >> yes. it will be tough out there showers. >> this bellwethers coming

in one of the busiest travel lines of the year. >> of for an inch of rain so the bay area. the rain and heavy winds light as a people without any hour. good news, pacific gas and electric company says everything should be back up and running. forecasters are running, up to 7 in. of rain have fallen causing flooding and mudslides 3 in. of additional rain will expected to hit by wednesday. although of the need, right there on our website of www.kron4.com log on to the wedding tab.weather t >> national averages a $3.29

a gallon for gas. san francisco, the highest gaspers and the nation that $3.35 a gallon. san as a $3.29, the post office prepared for what is attractive to beat the disease milling day of the year. more than 800 million pieces of mail are expected to render the system today. today is the deadline for sending holiday cards. priority mail you can send that to mark, express mail wednesday. we'll be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues and 11:00 a.m.. nice to see the roadway trying out for now. a.m.. nice to see the roadway trying out for now. drying out for now.

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terrorism. the rest necessary to ensure public safety. no. here is calling so the tree and drills on the front line islands reckless. say they will retaliatnot retaliate. the norts revealing dress differently than the ones last month because south korean shells landed far persian gulf. the show biz island just about a month ago. two marines and two civilians killed. >> the latest in the wikileaks, said the documents reveals for one week a facility has a radioactive material was completely unprotected. it sets and unnamed official expressing concern to the

u.s. embassy official about the storage facility after the one guard was removed and as those intricate was broken for months preparing u.s. officials were told one week later the material had been removed. bank of america says it will no longer process transactions for wikileaks. area's they have been several other financial institutions that take an action like this. in a statement they said it believes " the site may be engaged in activities that are among evidence inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments " in a giant financial institutions: mastercard, a paper cup that stopped handling payments for the state. >> a quick break, let's get a live the good side to get into hours. late in driving

and, san jose, traffic is moving smoothly.

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welcome back, newark airport there's a terminal, and is) now has authorities investigate a suspicious package. they have blocked a vehicle traffic from entering incoming and arriving departure levels you cannot get to them. they're investigating, some type of suspicious package may be a suspected bomb. right now, we don't have anymore formation on this, we zoomed in on the terms of the rest of the airport is open. bu the package was discovered behind a counter the ellis added security, prison officers, there must the rain now. people have been waiting at that terminal,

they're not allowing anyone in our up while they investigate, they're saying " there shut down the terminal they have a device, they're going to take it out and hopefully get things back quickly " we'll get back to the story surely as again information during its peak winter storms are putting into ever on the holiday spirit not just in the bay area but all across the west. it will not let up, one of the busiest travel days of the year could soar. speech calling a truce on demolition derby this loveless road turned into a slip and slide for drivers in washington. >> my labor ran into trouble, but she hit him than before for the cheap. >> no one was seriously hurt. further was strong winds with gusts up to 70 m.p.h. countries and airlines in seattle. 100- some people lost power at the height of the storm. in

bakersfield, foch fighting tran roads into rivers. travers' rescinded and water lots streets. >> my girlfriend's car was coming down the street, thinking we could make it, a distraught. it's flooded. it then. >> homeowners are now concerned about mud slides. the tree situated in an unstable earth toppled on to this home. the kron is moving so much authorities worry the house itself would side. >> to have tennis to get out. >> officials are warning of the situation will get worse as more rain was in. higher elevations to get to attend fr 10 ft.. >> the get stuck a lot of that's about. >> (applause) >> we have gone ahead of the heaviest in the worst of it over the weekend, we still must and char's happening around the bay. louisa. >> good morning, here's a shot of albany, dry at this

hour. but if you had to the north of the south wet weather. over the past three days check that these rainfall totals, 2.2 in. in downtown san for cisco, same napa. san jose 1.83, san rafael 2.75, oakland close to three. one into the san jose. taking it to the day today will add those totals but not by much, violence family might pick up a few hundreds of an inch in san francisco. the best chance is up to the north bay. hesitated for car, several hundreds of an injured rain in san and cisco. san franciscoo much in terms of downtown san francisco. storm tracker 4, taking into the spots

that are getting the heaviest rain, rain and run country. also linton now but, silverado trail picking up some raindrops, downtown napa. done in the south bay, seeing some showers just enter morgan hill. now starting to move upwards in two san jose, high 17 picking up some raindrops as you had done to santa cruz. heavier cell, right through campbell. current temperatures in the '40's and 50's. not to chile. future cast, keeping a chance of showers around for a good portion of the day seeing some thunderstorms as well. on enough shares continued tuesday, rain on wednesday, thursday, friday nice little break. christmas eve should be dry, the rain returns and

christmas. george. >> thank you, no hot spots, tracking the bridges star near the bay bridge tunnel was bowed, late traffic as to expect, much lighter than usual. maybe we're ready into something of a holiday light traffic we can always hope. >traffic is still doing good and san mateo bridge, 92 looks good coming over from 800. 800 is from 3 in both directions. also looks good to the dumbarton bridge. golden gate, 101 set bound a damp deck but not wet one. a smith checked your marin county, finishing with a look on your ride an inner- city 0, was gunned still pretty late. no delays between highway 4 in

university ave. that drive time is 12 minutes. mark. >> new details as president barack obama is expected to clear the way for gays to serve openly in the military it will not go into effect immediately, but it's because after the president signs that the president must have it certified. so for the time being the restrictions will remain on the books, it is unclear how fully they will be a force. >> many republicans for leading the charge to freeze salaries are being asked if the practice of the peach. their encounter has pushed his office payroll by 81 percent. minnesota republican michelle mcmanus payroll has jumped 16% the sarah couple of examples, some of the lawmakers say their trent hire the best talent possible in the duct

tape. >> the senate has passed a sweeping bill to make it safer. the second time the senate has passed this bill which would give the government broad new powers to increase its instructions on inspections. the $1.4 billion bill would place stricter standard bills on imported bills. there would have to follow tougher rules to keep it safe. >> what the feds are saying about the san bruno explosion when we come back. a live look get side as san francisco from our roof on van ness. you can see it is pretty dry rain now, but to the north and the son of the we're seeing some rain.

welcome back, new details of the progress it is looking into the cause of the deadly natural gas pipeline fire in december not asking for me saying they subpoenaed witnesses to testify at a hearing early next year in

washington d.c.. there is extensive interests in the disaster, the national transportation safety board says held public hearings five times the past three years including in the container ship that hit the bay bridge in november 2007. spilling 53 dousing gallons of oil. they voted this week on whether the holmes a hearing that they will announce. >> many victims in december and gas find expression still don't know how their taxes are going to be affected by the repairs and the rebuilt said they have to do, yesterday in san bruno jackie spieler led a tenenbaum meeting between victims and the irs, she called the representatives from the irs for not being clear with their answers. >> what i want to do is report back to the commissioner of the internal revenue service says that he to do the simple thing which

is to use his discretion so that we don't have to go through this charade frankly. as it relates to the money received by these persons who have lost their homes, portions of the roms, coping enough and don't need the irs billed everything down the necks. (applause) >> she said that the money received after disaster should not be subject to federal income-tax. >> we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. a live look at that, as we're watching sierra, conditions a lot of snow. especially yesterday and this morning had a 50 is covered in snow.

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more rain to come and more snow in the sierra louisa at the latest. >> periods of dry weather this morning, we are also continuing to see some heavy

downpours of the north bay see where those heavier downpours are. white country, as he had done to wooden valley road, rainfall rates half an inch per hour. pretty heavy downpours also as we take it up along highway 80 through vacaville, getting some very heavy downfalls. then in the south bay, still seen some wet weather, san jose, a few isolated raindrops. along highway 17 as you head towards santa cruz. this year, wet snow continued to i-80 and 50. genes are required about locations. future cast, showing you continue to keep a chance of showers around. toman more of a hit or miss, rain expected. by the evening on tuesday downpours, up to the

north bay by wednesday, keeping some showers or around the later part of your day should stay dry. give me an idea what's going on in terms of that wet weather, you can see that train of moisture has a bit self bridge. now the southern portion is getting pummeled. flood warnings in effect slosh flood watches in effect. we don't have the trees there, so their root system can absorb a lot of that moisture. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. wet weather continues to wednesday, catchy break thursday, christmas eve and then bring the rain beckons the picture on saturday. which means it will be a white christmas in the sierra. george. speech thank you, checking the bridges, bay bridge restaurant looks good. no problems, action that doesn't look like the bay bridge, but still like that

night to reassign back up. that's the bay bridge. but the westbound ride. i have the wrong button cursed my dad. no black or delays.up or de sure, looks good, you're right to the san mateo still getting a little heavier, also in the east bound direction heading back towards hayward no reports of any delays at 10192 or 800. now back to the golden gate where we began, light traffic still on the southbound no problems. towards the sierra, gender or amends through this era interstate 80 and highway 50 both require chains the have is to be closed between several lake and kirkwood. other portions to require

chains its avalanche control does the reason for the closure. bart had some pretty serious from sister it delays in the trans 82. some of the equipment is still working its way out towards pittsburgh a point. there may be one or two east bound that are delayed. >> storms are rather read it again, knocking down powers brought down a tree into this fund, that sense, the private discussions through. jackie sissel is live and oakland with more. >> good morning, you can see some of the damage, this house, what happens is this tree shattered one of its branches going to over here you can see inside the building itself there for adults and a baby in suddenness happens. it will be unlivable at least for now. the bridge crashed into

their rooms and the living room. you can see that the branch is still on scene, for some of the current record of of some point today and make sure the houses of it is structurally safe. you can see the trip from said the roof. obviously not livable for the folks who were in here. >> thank you, darya. >> tracking the storm to hit the big ticket mill valley, a heavy downpour combined with high tide led to flooding and high winds or one like this car, indeed above from the california highway patrol get out of the water. at the parking lot, and drivers to let their cars parked return to see that they had been flooded out. san francisco, a good downpour's country debt market street, the rain is coming down in the the heavier and brillo or had that rain burst into the area and then taper off. as

we headed to one of the busiest travel lease, this storm is causing headaches, travelers and international airport have been slowed down. da lin has more. >> you can see quite a few delays in the departure monitor the sfo, their seventh test flight to phoenix was about three hours behind and so was this fight to portland. >> it makes me very tired to sit here and wait, trying to go back to cleveland ohio my regional flight was to leave it to 3:00 p.m. and now my present site news at 10:00 p.m.. eight hours. >> she is pretty much done everything to keep yourself busy, take her mind away from a long wait >>. an airport manager says sfo sought many delays on sunday because of heavy rain in san francisco. but because of heavy snow in paris france led to the cancellation of this man's fight he plans to sleep sfo

until the next flight to paris that is three days away. >> they don't give out elsewhere have to wait here. i don't pay the hotels >>. that is going to be a >> tough. probably. >> every officials suspect is even more delays of up to christmas in as bad timing because this is a very busy for 122 dozen people are expected to lie in a net san francisco san another 120,000 small.tomorrow. >> we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. a live look at that as we're watching conditions around the bay, pop out showers even thunderstorms to tampa to the day to day, live look here at the golden gate, for to the day to day, live look here at the golden gate, for the jury now.his is so good! i baked it! ana knows how to cook... ...she also has acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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5:40 a.m. news around the bay, to amend or killed and two other people injured " the weekend, three separate shootings efforts to his reported just and 11:00 saturday night. one man was killed there, a second victim wounded. in another shooting happened around to 15 yesterday. in the 9000 lot of the international boulevard off that victim is in critical condition. a third shooting at 330 and officers are on the lookout for a man who robbed a vacaville gas station in late saturday night, the 911 call came in from the clerk at the u.s. a gas station in a 100 block. police discovered the robber had forced his way into the business shortly after it closed, ordered the clerk to the ground he made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.

>> other royal stories, authorities are still trying to determine the cost of a massive oil explosion. the initial findings show is started from illegal extraction of oil and happened in san martine, the loss affected 5000 residents. incinerated cars, homes and trees. although oil turn the streets and fingers. other stories, facebook co-founder marc has started his visit to china with a start of a visit of the tour of this. his own site remains locked in the mainland he is meeting with ceos, there's no word on what they're disgusting. not many in china are familiar with facebook, he is known for being time magazine's 2010 person of the year. we'll be back with more in just a couple of minutes, to get to going on this monday morning still seeing some

rain, a checked as by shut out of san jose. 101 southbound on the right-hand side camera shaking, l looks like it's raining, i think our tracker shows it's raining dennis update. we will be right back.. speaking my stationed in the united kingdom i would like to say hello to my sister in california and the rest of her family. at the holidays i love you and i miss you. >> highly of like to san happy holidays to everyone, i would like to say that those to whom my son patrick. and all of my family and friends in the status and the bay area.

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, caltrans are working to keep roads clear of snow. all this note is a good thing if you're skiing and not driving. all winter storm is affecting skiers and drivers. >> sidelines no way for fresh covering venture roll. for die-hard skiers that even the december storm could keep them off the slopes. speed is really part rate. that is about. state officials said they had to close down ones given to the highlands. winds. >> it goes again, we will open a back up. >> getting of the mountain will be as easy as it turns from what and best rate. gene controls are in effect, there are long lines of drivers riddick bowe.

speaking it's kind of fun. >> it is an affront kind of fun >> they're working around the clock to notify drivers and keep the roads clear. >> let's get an update on the area, bracing for more rain louisa. >> winter storm warning and a factor of four clock, a level still lags success in ft. three is 6 in. above 7,000 ft.. you can see thiscoming down at this hour up into 80. in the bay area's could continue to see some shares, will looks like it's remo's preface the north bay that sir getting the best catcher for weather. heavy downpours

green and the wine country and to vacaville seeing some heavier rain moving through just to the north. as we take it down into this as big, a few shares training in to san jose area, slate chairs than to morgan hill. highways 17 as well. future cast is as to the day sharing is continue the chance of showers for 10:00 even up until the evening, isolated thunderstorms as well. tomorrow, hit and miss the will continue picking up overnight tuesday and here wednesday seeing some heavier down bars. late wednesday it looks like iran is right to let up. continue to see a chance of rain farleys the first half for your work week. and the the week drying out. that train of moisture that is really made a beeline from the bay area shifted suffered, all the heavier rain data into a loss angeles and san oxime

flood warnings,/watches to southern california. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. the next break is on thursday, and looks likely to get a director's seat. 550 coming check and your commute. church. >> pretty good conditions around the bay, the hot spots, starting with the bridge check and your ride to the bay bridge restaurant, the volume continues to build still nothing to be concerned about an easy trip across the upper deck, no crimes reported on the span. golden gate, still good, let's look first at the san mateo bridge series c traffic continues to build in the westbound direction the drive time is still a drug- 13 events. golden gate, 101

in from marin county is still a number of cars pop of the bid still no promise or delays. heading south, as a, last friday pretty late. here's some light gesture for travel this elektra's exit. this is often the case on 101 in the south bay, where the exits if you're on the east side is one street, if your and the west street it is the other. in any case is light traffic all the way up. >> i never did and the developing story we're following the fbi has cleared which was thought to be as it switches pocket at near calamity average. it shut down its zero terminals. it turned out it was a package of a computer monitor the 9 million bits a small amount of radiation

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night. the fire department says the man who's not a hotel guest right to evade security ended up on the roof, a 30 say you tried to climb down by hanging on to the christmas lights they broke he tumbled 10 stories. there you see him being strapped the gurney, taken to hospital. he was conscious when used it to the hospital no update of his condition. >> there's a reason to stay up late tonight, you don't want to miss this, it's the last lanark for the lives of this year. it will start around 11:41 p.m. a suspected to last for about three and a half hours. it will go through a range of very dramatic colors. during an eclipse the moon coming years, airline. the sun's rays are shielded from the moon is expected to turn of vibrant red color. the last was in june, it check this one out, this particular type is the first one of its

kind in 500 years. >> i hope we can see it. there will be some clients. >> me obviously. august 4th. speaker willie back is kron4 morning news continues all other clients, rainshowers. especially in the north bay.