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soon in to show you where exactly were the heavy rain is located. >>audio difficulties >> jacqueline: here is the current picture. someone to show you a view on satellite stationery sold apple this area that is where the band or the whip of the bay and a brain and is not going south at all. so probably another four
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hours or so. before it starts to progress. a flood watch remains. we will keep you posted and track the storm both here and on line. >> reporter: we'll also keeping track of a situation in berkeley. working on a flooding situation best wabbled three vehicles. the real world and the crossing , occupants of that deal were able to get al safely. certainly the situation depict the seriousness of this storm. and how quickly can accumulate in one area. please walk us through your afternoon out here and what you sought initially and the
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progress made recently. >> reporter: working furiously to get this under control. the showers are coming down and it keeps coming down harder trick is nesting to let up. crews are working hard to get the flooding out of this area. i do not know what the situation is the bay and it appeared completely submerged. it seems to be a tough battle with all the water coming down. and this area. you could maybe make out of my camera is now helping right now. until they get this water under control but would not be the
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to the take this out. so you should not be driving through certain water and the storm or other conditions. >> reporter: caltran crew isn't working to help pump the water out of this area but cleared the drank from flooding and trained properly. draining properly. >> reporter: it seems to be a moderate but steady amount of rain that is coming down. we do see that here is a better shot. it is getting dark out here. i would describe it as a moderate amount of land but not changing the same amount is continues to coming down a
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steady flow of claim that keeps coming dell. --a steady flow of brain that keeps coming down. rain. >> reporter: several feet of water have accumulated and at least three cars were caught up and crews are now working to get the water levels down. we will keep you abreast of the situation here in berkeley. >> catherine: the biggest problem is power outages. they have made progress we have just from pg and e. >> we have made significant progress especially in the bay area. all right here, at
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the bay area in san francisco there are 7400 customers without power. overall, greater bay area over 16,000. >> catherine: we know the numbers were much higher even a couple of hours ago. san francisco problem mostly, maureen that in downtown. is that still the case? >> yes, the majority have been in that area. >> catherine: crews are dealing with the same flooded of rose, down trees and traffic issues. but they seem to work quickly what is the progress? >> than 166,000 customers. --more than.
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>> we do have crews coming from out a state to help us. we do want to remind customers that during a power outage they should use about they should use battery operated flashlights. some people are without power that will automatically go with candles but, we do recommend battery operated lighting to avoid fire situations. >> catherine: 860% power restored? is this true? 60 percent >> we have that 270,000 customers that have lost power and we have restored a hundred and 67,000 print so 60 percent a solid we
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have seen it move through the northern part of our area. the area south are expressing the but of the storm at the moment. we do expect those numbers to be a little fluid at this moment. >> pam: were just talking about the power outages. fort 7400 customers are still without power. even though the number is down to people without power are still struggling to deal with that fact. >> reporter: it is not just residents but also businesses, restaurants and hotels that would be doing business at this time. however, it is now pitch black. we are not in chinatown to put you in the missile will be our right
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now. you get a good idea of what we are looking at curry basically we are looking at the pitch dark. as we move more, you're looking at the gates of chinatown. it is completely pitch black. continue to be dark right now you have some people on the street and people controlling traffic because the street lights are out. moving down here is very dark but that is the hotel triton. that is also in the dark. as is the card store and everything else. quite a bit of a problem right here not just for business as a residence. reporting live. dan kerman- kron 4 news >> reporter: i think people
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who are in their homes or either staying in their homes in the dark or not accurate as look at the buildings of raucous nasty a lot of flashlight. at least people and triton are possibly not in there. it is pitch black from here and no one seems to be in chinatown. traffic headed towards the embarcadero weather is like your i came up from the south of market area which the stop lights are working creek i came up around the embarcadero area, the power is on there as well more towards the financial area with the gates of chinatown and that is where it continues to be out. >> pam:dan kerman reporting from chinatown. >> pam: not much traffic at
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this lane. rain >> pam: hanging over the bay area dropping lot of rain. >> reporter: trees are coming down and the river is on the rise. still a long way with the river rising fast with a height of the storm on thursday. at 68 in. 6-8 in >> if it continues to rank the to see a jump it is very alarming and the crop will
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be saturated. it becomes more rapid than you think. >> reporter: highway 17 said high with 17 so widespread flooding in. heavy rains caused debt as well. --difficulties as well. >> i was freak out. we want to get out of here and go to a hotel >> reporter: still a long way in boulder creek >> pam: this live coverage from berkeley. one of the
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hitch poker it which make it difficult for people to lock or even driving trick tush-- >> reporter: that made it hard for people to walk or even drive. even with the signals and intersections were out or four with stops and that everyone seemed to know that. which made it difficult. >> reporter: the montgomery street cross station. it is now open but earlier this morning it was closed with yellow caution tape. due to the power outage creek the many natural line with also several buildings in the downtown area that were closed due to the power outage.
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>>tecnical difficulties >> i had to get off the embarcadero. bowater is a beautiful thing and we did needed. >> reporter: again, bart was able to be open. at the wrong 1:00 this afternoon creek once again, stopping at the station. there were able to use backup generators to get power back on. that is the latest here, pam. maureen o'kelley.
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>> pam: making things difficult for anybody not just emergency crews. what is the latest jacqueline? >> jacqueline: are seen moderate rainfall about in half an inch of rain. typically all of the bill uc year on the screen grid resumed in for the moderate right over the bay bridge to concede a quarter inch of rain there. at the coast line and as a lot is a little heavier with a deep shade yellow. a half inch of rain those are tremendous downpours. making its way to the coastline. 20 to 25 in. or sell the heavy rain will kick off at half moon bay once again. off and on
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and the south bay with a moderate rainfall. it is lighter over in sunnyvale, paul also and some other areas that are heavier. >> jacqueline: this is where we are seen most of the rain. steady stream of grain moving from south west. to north east. it is stationary so we will continue to see rain like this for the next several hours. which what the flood advisory is still set for the bay area. >> jacqueline: taking a look at future test, we do have the rain through the 5:00 hour at the fact, it will go through all the entire evening. intensity is off right here. you'll see at
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the 9:00 hour and then after, heading towards midnight things will start to push south and taper off into the morning commute to my broker it will still seek isolated thunderstorms into tomorrow morning. mainly near the coast line. >> jacqueline: we will continue to monitor this rain here and on line. >> pam: contra costa county, at c h p is on the far right now phone right now. >> we are seen flooding conditions on several freeways. as well as world ways. standing water as well. >> pam: any sense of the
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number of accidents so far? >> it is coming so fast especially during the day it was hard to keep count. is a large number more than what we normally see. >> pam: the into the nighttime hours which makes it more precarious >> this ability will be limited in the evening hours. especially with the rain on top of that. between vehicles in front of them. we also want to encourage them to watch all for standing water. be mindful of certain areas and please slow down and drive safely >> pam: has trafficked and leiter than normal for this time of the day? this is normally a heavy commute
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>> pam: you can see scores of trees down all over the bay area costing many difficulties. >> pam: even just moving through an area where the trees are soft and such a weighted including the soil. not much has changed on the radar picture, jacqueline? >> jacqueline: the heavy rain picking up over the coastal waters headed towards the coastline. over the next couple of hours per day to see that large which is tracking down toward the north bay. perfect, sausalito 25 minutes creek
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mill valley same thing. but heavy rain expected. again, over half an inch of rain anything over that in greater is just windshield wipers full blast all day. the blast--when shield wipers. san rafael and the east bay plus the south bay will continue to stream in about 9:00, this storm is not budging. i knew that this would happen. we talked about this yesterday. we will talk more about the
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storm coming up in just a bit. >> pam: one of our many reporters out in the field haazig madyun... exactly where are you? >> i am in concord. >> several trees were impacted by the storm. branches. also in martinez wrote were flooded. --roads >> >> pam: we do apologize for the technical difficulties today. due to the severity of the rain and the power outages. it is causing major
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difficulties print for you and for us. >> gabe: 3 vehicles submerged under water. these cars have been submerged entirely for several hours now. you see on the top portion of the screen a blue vehicle, it appears to be the sedan or i should say the roof of this today and. --ehe hawks--the sedan. to the left of that is another vehicle. the good news is that all of the occupants were able to get out of the vehicles and get out safely. >> gabe: daniel, i did see a tweet a few minutes ago
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about a heavy-duty pop that was quick to be brought an end. brought in. >> reporter: this pomp behind me is a huge orange truck that uc on your screen is industrial pump. i believe that they are getting set up for that right now. once again, getting some of this water out brother quickly. hopefully this will be cleared up as some point is just hard to say where it will happen because the rain is still coming down. >> gabe: using other pumps earlier at one point, trying to clear drains creek they district those efforts and half moon for with the big heavy pot. --and they have
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moved forward with the heavy pump. >> could barely see the top of the white carbinol you are starting to see a little bit more of it. it is coming down with his causing more issues to this problem they already have. this giant dupont i to take a picture of the pump. hoping that it would give them a upper hand. what the blood it rolled away year per it-- with the flood it rolled away here. >> gabe: you do not know how deep it is accurate and when the water is this the the
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rain has not let up which is a lolling will wait to become deeper and deeper. >> pam: this is really eight stunning and frightening sight as well. >> pam: do we have pictures from san jose? there is a partial roof collapsed. of a safeway store pretty much as the crews are on their way. >> pam: other a marches and vehicles are on the scene. located on the 1700 block of east capitol expressway. partially collapsed. the reporter on the scene, informed us that the crews are in a rescue mode. at the want to make sure that no one is trapped in the building. the proof has partially collapsed there
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to monitor this huge storm that is causing all kinds of difficulties. the up imagine what people are dealing with today. c h p, is on the phone with us. >> we have been through out the city working with property owners with backup to their properties. it has been nonstop. it has been nonstop all day. >> catherine: 10 wrong, we have seen a lot of businesses with sewage issues. what do you still have to deal with? >> we had about 50 properties that experienced plotting--slugging. . the
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evening we are trying to chip away at all of the reports that in regards to sewage backup and drain issues. we hope to have this corrected by late this evening. we >> are going to be about as broad as needed. -- >> we may go to a skeleton crew was we feel that we have covered majority of the basis. >> catherine: let's go to a >> catherine: let's go to a break and we will have more on the storm after this. break and we will have more
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>> gabe: you are seen down trees and so many of them. smashing the hood and windshield. we are seeing this all over the bay area. in san bruno where a tree came through the selling in one of the bare rooms there creek we would get back in a moment. look the other debris prepared... the debris in the road way. derrick lee, thanks to him brinks sending these images where it was pouring it on he took this photo of garbage a day. four people lost their trash cans and strong throughout the area. here is another image of a
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vehicle tried to get through high water. no this is not ocean beach, nor is it the pacific. this was turned into a surfing hot did today with an experienced surfers riding waves and lake tahoe. full-fledged wade's waves. the coast guard is warning against the disparate pleading to people to stay out of the water despite the temptation especially if you are a hard core surfer. a situation to some they think is fun but it can be dangerous. again in lake tahoe not the pacific ocean. >> gabe: a lot of heavy rain throughout of the bay area
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we will continue to stay on top of this. >> pam: >> catherine: we have been talking about power outages. no lights on the tree. >> reporter: i think i talked the gates of chinatown being dark. you see the christmas tree behind me or what looks like a christmas tree. let me step up of the shot so the chicken see it. in the dark. there is a bluebill all right there with its lpg and 80 mobile command vehicle which are hoping to get the power back up here in un square. we have all of union square including the christmas trees, and macy's
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without power. >> reporter: we have been fighting restaurants and businesses finding restaurants and businesses without power. union square is completely in the dark at this hour. >> catherine: have used went into any tourist because this is normally a big location for terrorist. tourist >> reporter: i know that you have to plant in advance for months to get tickets to go to this type of deal but these things but hopefully the people that were planning to like this to be here for the tree today will
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be here tomorrow. >> catherine: any idea on when they will get it fixed? >> reporter: pg and e are working on disparate here is the mobile command of guilt all right here. it looks like another power trump has just pulled up right behind me. hopefully they will get to the bottom of what ever is causing this. if you look up in the distance. let me step out of the shot so that is secret neiman- marcus the lights are still on their corporate >> reporter: that is why the tree is out and macy's are out because of the particular grit that you may be on.
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>> pam: still creating so many major problems and the north bay and south to the santa cruz mountains. good evening everyone kron4 team are spread out all across the bay area. the rain has storm has not lived up >> pam: the rate is still covering be bulk of the bay area. --rain >> jacqueline: we are going to zoom and took a couple of places where the rain is the heaviest. excessive rainfall at the stretch of 101 and apollo alto. heavy rainfall skirting and
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hayward and union city. where you see the yellow and darker yellow that is about in half an inch of rain. letter yellow represents a quartered and of rain. it is really coming down current and steady flow of grain through the several hours of today. alameda county and berkeley solace policy toll and petaluma. >> pam: >> jacqueline: looking at a satellite radar picture showing that we are seen a steady stream of rain. it is not budging deck is not the movement that matter is the movement to the south with a
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major band of rain. we will continue to see this for a couple of hours. several hours. >> jacqueline: the intensity of which you just saw on futurecast and star tracker is heavier than what is showing. will pick up isolated thunderstorms into tomorrow morning. we will continue to time this out and talk more about flooding concerns. >> pam: thank you, jacqueline we will stay in touch with you. >> pam: most of the lights are out at the height of the christmas shopping season
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where tourists are here. and people are out. dan kerman is in union square. >> reporter: if all was normal you would see the tree behind me. that is the christmas tree. let me step out of the shot to get a better view of things. macy's is all behind us to read if you look over again see light and the distance work power continues to be on with the neiman-marcus where they are located on a different grit. >> reporter: the tree continues to be out at this hour. there are emergency crews on the same. there are trying to get this thing
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fixed. just about five minutes ago power came back one not to the tree but to the light and macy's. so they are working on it. >> reporter: at this point, we are still and the pitch black here. we're also seeing tiffany is out and sex is out. >> reporter: this will continue to be completely in the dark. >> pam: so much have been going on with the subway project in union square which has affected a lot of the weir with customers and now the power outages. >> reporter: it the
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financial aspect would certainly take a hit because the merchants may think because of the storm they were not born to get a lot of business. many people are staying home and out of the stores. tomorrow will express how the up retell is affected by the storm. >> reporter: is the anticipation of the storm that could take months in advance so those people are very much going to beat out of luck. i like the tree that they come and see tomorrow alcatraz is not something that you can pop over to see the next day but this what happens when you
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have a big storm that hit the bay area. >> pam: trying to get the lights back on. you see from the pictures would tilt the story. telling the story. >> pam: taking its toll on a safeway store in san jose with a partial roof collapsed. the grocery store is located on the 1700 block of east capitol expressway. it is see the march is the crew is still on this thing. and they produce area of the market the partial collapse of the roof creek >> pam: scott rates is there as well get a reaffirmation
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at pictures we will have a live report from him coming up and just a few moments. let's check in with the grant right now. >> gabe: three cars were swallowed by several feet of water purity concede the emergency crews there tried to get this situation under control. --three cars was swallowed by several feet of water. pumping to get the water level down. what >> reporter: jean this situation as we last spoke it seems like they are making real progress with the pop. you can see that the car or more of the car which is something that we have not seen all day it looks like they are starting to get some of this water
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out of there with the industrial pump that they are using. and look like to have a lot more work to do and right now they have this pont. --pump. cindy the holes and to that pumped into a station some kind of output. --out let >> reporter: that are making progress, slowly but surely getting ahead. >> gabe: slow and steady. we should mention that all three of the occupants did get out ok. just beyond that is the part of one vehicle which is a white car with a hook and the back
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windshield peeking out from above at 1.4 to 5 ft. of water that had accumulated in that area. coastal flooding. >> gabe: 3 vehicles were fulton of thinking that they could get through. --fooled >> gabe: earlier they were trying to clear the drains and that area but now they are pumping the water out of that area. >> gabe: looks like it may not be raining quite as hard as it was earlier today. and seems to have let up just a little bit. >> reporter: is not as intense as the earlier that
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kept coming down at the same rate for our spirit seemed to have lied to end up just a little bit but still coming down. >> pam: progress on some spots are around the bay area but still major problems in other areas. all caused by this major storm that slammed into the bay area parent >> pam: we will be back with more after the break. female announcer: get three years interest-free financing
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rain in is really coming down there redwood city and palo alto. mostly near 2 in. of rain which is eight extreme downpour. it seems like a very heavy rainfall near san mateo stretching from palo alto to or past san mateo and edging nearer s f o. and highway 101. you just fathering shift heading towards the east bay. >> jacqueline: zooming up here so we can see more of the moderate plain to see where it will approach next what places like dublin. everywhere you see the yellow it is a very high rainfall you're talking
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windshield wipers on full blast. petaluma and center rose up on advisory. santa rosa near central valley. the moderate rainfall has not let up. >> jacqueline: futurecast does un amazing job of pinpointing where the rain will be prepared to concede the intensity and then you can see where a lot of just a bit later on in the evening pushing into central valley. thunderstorms are a a possibility. for the morning commute especially,
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near the coast line. winter storm warning in the paint on the screen and that is for heavy snow down lake level by tomorrow morning >> jacqueline: i ballpark this to last another three hours. i think by 9:00 it will start to shift down to the south and i will let you know if that changes. >> gabe: areas that have been struggling flooding at fifth and mandela. cars are struggling to get through. minor intersections throughout the bay area as well creek take a look at berkeley, which is a mess. here is facing from earlier today this is what looked like earlier in the daylight hours with the cars to merge
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their two of the three vehicles. there is the third appeared totally under the water and debris. take a look at the mud slide. not only mud and water but rocks and tweaks and everything else that comes down in a mud slide. there castro valley really, a mass for drivers try to get our round derrick didn't see all that dangerous debris. >> gabe: how about another one... also running high. it is about noontime were we see this many creeks are flooding and and are run bay area today. if you had
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>> pam: near interstate 80 at the other crossing were three cars were trapped in the flood waters earlier in that area. we are seeing more of the vehicles that we were able to see earlier today. crews have been pumping water out of that area so that the trend the roadway. -drain-the roadway. >> pam: take a look at this
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bring new snow in to the sierra. earlier today, to clear the scene of a car that spun out because of conditions. >> the time i got an to the ramp i started sliding. so now i am waiting for a tow truck to pull me out. within two to three minutes with a blanket of the snow the juicier started immediately. >> pam: deceive the trucks starting to clear the road --tsongas you can see the trucks starting to clear. >> pam: what ever you are
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>> pam: they even ask people to help all in their own neighborhood because there's so much rain in the bay area tonight. you can see that there is still a sizable amount of people that are still on the roadways patrick c h p are hoping that people go home and stay there. let's check in with jacqueline creek
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>> jacqueline: the visibility will continue to go down for nighttime driving. and we are still seen moderate marine over portions of the bay area. doubt and palo alto and redwood city to see the orange and red with extreme down corporate look at their rainfall rates i think i am on the wrong thing. accidently touch the flood watch. stretching all we up to redwood city. a lot of yellow and became more moderate rainfall. look at this picture here even on the left hand of the screen
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coming down and bought this right now. continuing to look as some of the sales. coming down in this era in this hour. >> jacqueline: if we look up to the north bay at highway 101 still moderate rainfall. with all of the rain streaming into the bay area to see is a steady flow from the southwest on. this will continue in the next several hours. i think all around 9:00 p.m. possibly 10:00 p.m. i think the timing of around nine will be pretty accurate flood watch is
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still alert for most of the bay area. >> jacqueline: here is a look at futurecast. continuing in the same place, just imagine if it was all yellow? 1:00 in the morning and will push through central valley as we head into mourning commit will see a few spotty showers happening overnight and into tomorrow morning to see that here. here is and look at the headlines, timing. from about 10:00 to 7:00 a.m. the rain will taper off and become more spotty as you saw on futurecast. a few isolated
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crossing to see the vehicles, of tamale baby or even more so merged. you see the rain still coming dell and pretty much still in the thick of it. the occupants of the vehicles were able to get out safely which is the good news. obviously, a total loss and we are live on the scene was... with daniel who has been monitoring the situation for us. >> reporter: was they brought in this heavy-duty industrial size watcher pop that is when things start to happen. these cars were completely submerged and now you can see half of one vehicle in the year starting to see the other half are
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part of the other vehicle towards the back. it has really been about the industrial pump that was brought in an and the crews that have been working all day. the cars are the cars were submerged earlier. they had to bring in any larger size pop. pump. >> gabe: a visionary cautionary tale to the stay away from standing water. literally, the only discernible part of the car was the roof of the white
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-maureen >> gary: >> reporter: >> reporter: you can see how the traffic lights being affected by the storm made it difficult for pedestrians and drivers. >> it has been very hectic today brit driving. people were driving faster than where they should be driving. people are driving black out lights. they are driving straight through them instead of stopping.
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>> reporter: you need to treat a blackout intersection light as a four way stop. >> reporter: what your looking at as video at 280 with traffic being led around 5:00. it should have that a lot more crowded. >> reporter: that is the latest year catherine creek >> catherine: that is what the c h p was hoping for that people would stay off the street current >> catherine: this is the very busy time where people would be heading home. >> reporter: some people their children had to stay home from school so they're
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all pirogue or maybe the business or offices were closed due to the storm. >> reporter: and just so that you know i did get off a few minutes ago with san francisco... they do still have some lights up now and they are still working on an getting some back up and running. >> catherine: stay with us as we continue to track this huge storm hitting the bay area.
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to that print to offset. >> reporter: we are at the same situation that we were before behind me, directly behind me that is the christmas tree and i will step out of the shot just for a second. agassi right there. the tree is out with no light for now everything remains the dark creek it has to spend that kind of a day. --8 has been just that kind of a day. >> reporter: a nonstop to
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which from overflowing drains inside many of these properties. >> if you look all around here you will find everything here. >> reporter: cleanup crews on scene for much of d-day and that work will continue. it will be days or weeks for 75 businesses in the area to function. downtown the issue is power or lack there of street lights are out causing many backups and closures. >> reporter: also forcing the shutdown of the montgomery bart station. >> reporter: as roseanne and
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the round lme the work closed print those who chose to get on the freeway had troubles of their own. one of the many problems of driving on the freeway is the to know where these problems will occur. a whole line is filled with debris or water you would have to go very slow so you would not hydroplane. >> reporter: the right lane was flooded and the approaching the west exit you had to move back to the right as the left lane was flooded. >> pam: in the oakland hills tonight covering a number of mud slides print and what some people are doing to protect homes. >> technical difficulties.
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>> pam: ok, we will pull that up in just a moment. >> pam: the storm system is not moving at all. you concede that yellow shade which is this storm covering the bay area. uc oakland and san francisco was much of the bay area getting drenched. >> reporter: extremely busy day for this city of public works cleaning drains all day with tons of flooding and over two dozen service calls today. >> reporter: we are on the 1500's block where there are working to get more men out to clear the roadway. some
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of the mud has made its way onto the boulevard eckardt the heart of the rain will come down which will make it worse tehuantepec the mud back on to the hillside. .. >> reporter: you can see that has caused some problems on the roadway. >> reporter: the home owner on the corner says that it has been very frustrating. it should have been taken care of a long time ago especially, when you knew that storms were cutting. were coming. >> there is a waterfall up ahead and now is coming down the road and are starting
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