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from raging rivers to flooding and mud slides. this weekend's robust storm leaving its mark throughout the drought stricken bay area. good evening i'm heather holmes. >> and i'm ken wayne. here's a look at storm tracker 2 which is showing the rain's path over the last 12 hours. most of the green is in the central valley now. >> the rains have caused flooding and mud slides. clean up began early and is lasting through the night. >> here is a look at the
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night's totals starting with today. napa got more than 2-inches of rain. concord 1.34-inches and 1.21 for san francisco. >> the winter storm warning is still in effect for the sierra until 4:00 in the morning. a flash flood watch was extended but expired just about an hour ago. we have live coverage. debora villalon and patti lee are out in the elements where problems still persist tonight. and we have the latest from mark tamayo who has how long the rain will persist. >> it has been quite a sequence starting last thursday. take a look at the numbers some parts of the bay area picking up significant numbers, look at kentfield over 10 inches. napa over 7-inches. santa rosa 6.36. and san francisco over three. by comparison parts of the south bay and east bay not
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taking up nearly such. all the energy focused to the north. san jose only picking up 8.4 and hayward 6.8. as far as last storm tracker 2 radar. the bulk of the energy is moving to the east and to the south of the bay area. still lingering clouds and moisture in place. still producing some scattered showers. you can see peppered on these maps toward the san helena and napa. parts of the east bay closer to hayward. nothing too extreme but still enough to wet the bay area roadways as well. the bulk of the activity hasn 't moved out to the south of the region. coming up at 10:30, we'll take another look at our storm tracker 2 radar tracking potential showers. shower chances coming up for your monday morning commute. thank you, mark. and as he mentioned several inches of rain doused mill
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valley leading to this. and near by businesses to close for the day. debora villalon live now on miller avenue where the water there has finally subsided. deb. >> heather, just within the last hour this side street montford has reopened as the water has finally dropped. but the 2:00 a.m. clock still has sandbags drinking in the moisture as rain keeps coming down. >> reporter: no, we want the rain. -- >> it's just not the flooding. >> reporter: open for business but at this drink hole, so do flood waters right outside the door. 90 years of bar, 90 years of flooding whenever rain and time and a near by creek with storm drains go over their limits. >> it comes into the bar, to the bathroom and the grates and everything. >> reporter: the owners expect it and owners place sandbags and it comes in any way. >> reporter: the canyon sends
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water pouring down. >> it's not in the house. it's up to the house. >> reporter: a 50-foot landslide collapsing from the road above into the backyard of this home and crashing into a newly built studio. >> the hill never took that much water before. and the first time it did, it all gave way. >> reporter: fire crews shored up the slide to keep it from moving even more. this event probably not just mother nature. >> they redid the road about a year and a half ago and it hasn 't rained since really. substantially, so nobody realized they changed the pitch. >> redirecting the flow of water over this edge. something to sort out with the county. but-- >> nobody was hurt and we have homeowners insurance. so that's my montra. >> i have five pumps around my house. >> reporter: neighbors are well aware how saturated slopes can give way. >> it's a little scary and more water in our reservoirs. >> there's a lot more good than bad. >> reporter: and that's the attitude at the 2:00 a.m.
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club as well. tomorrow's high tide may make this watering hole watery once more but until then. >> we were closed till about 5:00 today. now we're open till however long we can stay open till. till 2:00 a.m. hopefully. >> and sadly the storm may have contributed to a fatal car crash here in mill valley this morning. a jeep went off this road. greenway, a man was found dead inside the vehicle by search and rescue teams in the ravine. we have no identity released yet on that body. >> from debra. we turn to patty lee. she's live in oakland where another mud slide is keeping residents up throughout the night. >> reporter: this is another mud slide. this mud slide was cleared away in the past hour. one of the issues with this area is without the light from our light truck, this road
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would be pitch black. so a driver would not be able to see the hazards until they were right on top of it. this city crew was clearing mud past grizzly peak. carlos navarro is in charge of directing traffic and he's been at it since noon. >> cold, wet, dark. so yeah hopefully they sent more people out here. >> reporter: mud slides became a persistent problem when the rain came in from san francisco. starting as a drizzle. >> it wasn't raining that hard. >> reporter: that quickly turned into torrential downpours. the effect flooding in parts of contra costa county and yet another day of accidents and power outages. this incident caught by our cameras in brentwood. >> there's a bunch of us out here right now.
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>> reporter: crews are combing the roadways for hazards. especially at roadsides which have a way of collapsing. >> the first rain drenches the hillside which causes the hillside to collapse. we're going to have a lot of these all week. >> okay, i got to go. >> reporter: that crew is still out on the roads. when we caught up with them they were on their sixth mud slide clearing in as many hours. we're told that the east bay is not the only problem. that as long as these rains continue. and now that this ground is saturated. communities around the entire bay area built around hillsides could have the same problem. reporting live in oakland, patti lee, ktvu news. >> all the rain this weekend has turned shallow bay area
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rivers into raging ones. our crew was along the drought. less than two weeks ago, this is what the russian river looked like remember these pictures. the level was so low you could actually walk across it without getting your shoes wet. at the time the river was at its lowest level for january in more than 50 years. and a viewer just sent us video of the swollen creek in sonoma county filled with swiftly moving debris. it was taken near shelville. remi wrote it looked like a giant log jam had just broken lose. and travelers at san francisco airport were slow going. managers called for a ground delay program that reduced the simultaneous landings of two planes on side by side runways to just one landing at a time. at last check sfo officials tell us that 120 flights have
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been cancelled. they say there are delays of 60 minutes to two hours on other flights. one passenger was upset about missing his flight. >> extremely frustrating. they gave a call but it wasn't a human being that call me. i couldn't talk to them. i could not reach them and when i did reach them they gave me exactly the wrong information. all right, one of our photographers jeda bunger caught this video. pg & e reported an outage that affected 2,700 customers. we just received an update from pge that shows just five san francisco customers without power. in fact, east bay there's 441 customers without power. there's about 275 affected in the north bay.
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and scattered outages in other parts of the bay area. throughout this storm our viewers have been sending us pictures of just how all of this rain is impacting our local water ways. i want to show you one of our pictures from oroville. it is flowing you can see right here. a viewer send us a picture of this spill way joking there's no launching of boats there now. this is from tk mcadams she spotted this sunken boat in butte creek. you can see the tip of the boat just poking out there. that's all that's above the water. another picture here comes to us from missy biachi, she notes that our drinking water has spilleth over. we would like to see your pictures. you can send them to us at
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photos @ ktvu.com. postthem on facebook or twitter. the rain is expected to go higher as the run off continues to go to the lake. >> i know it's kind of sad for all the skiers who love skiing. but it made all the rivers really nice so we're going kayaking. >> this is the first time it's been up because there's been no water. so yeah, thankful for the water for sure. >> reporter: this is what the same section of the american river looked like just last week. things are much different today. although water managers say the drought is far from over. they say fulsome lake levels are still far below normal for this time of year. it looks like water spread everywhere today in the community of fulsome. here's a picture posted on twitter by fox 40 photographer dan slack. this is out of sacramento. the railroad tracks seem to form a small canal through the woods. this wet weather will continue all weekend whenever you're not by a television you can get our weather updates on
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our weather app as well as ktvu.com and follow us on facebook and twitter. this weekend's rain has uncovered a weakness on the eastern span of the bay bridge. the potentially dangerous and costly problem. it is a staggering statistic that has health officials alarmed. we'll show you the bay area school where three out of four children are not immunized. and a major change getting major criticism. capitol hill weighs in on the extension of more federal rights for same-sex couples.
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take another live look at storm tracker 2. you can see some of the rain moving out of the bay area. you can see it lingering in other parts such as fairfield. but we have been getting drenched throughout the weekend and most of it tapering off as you can see here on storm tracker 2. mark tamayo is continuing to track our wet weather and he will return with a live update including your workweek forecast coming up at 10:30. hayward police are investigating a home invasion robbery and what appears to be the shooting of two intruders. this is video from the crime scene in groveway. we just got word that officers were called to that location at about 5:30 this evening and we're told that one of the robbers had been found inside.
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police found him diseased. and another suspect has fled. they believe a female who was transported to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds may have also been involved. in san jose a driver has been arrested for dui and manslaughter following a deadly accident. police say three people were inside a vehicle when it crashed on branham lane on snow avenue. that's the vehicle in question there on the tow truck. all of the occupants inside were injured and taken to the hospital where one person was declared dead. police haven't yet released the identities of those involved. also in san jose police say an officer shot and wounded an armed man suspected of stealing a car. a spoking woman said officers responding to a 911 call on holly drive near gridly street around 3:00 this morning. found a man with a shotgun outside a home demanding a man inside give him the keys to a vehicle. police confronted the man and
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hit the man once. police described the man's wounds as serious but not life threatening. oakland police are describing the homicide of a 69- year-old woman discovered dead this weekend in her east oakland home. police say she was killed about 10:50 saturday morning in a home on 103rd avenue near plymouth street. authorities have not yet released the victims name or the cause of her death. the new $6.4 billion bay bridge has a new potentially dangerous and costly problem. our recent rainy weather has exposed leaks in the span. allie rasmuss asked officials about this latest problem and how they plan to address it. >> reporter: it was tough to see throughout the rain. but over the weekend a problem underneath the road became very visible to caltrans engineers. >> we have found some leaks, we're still determining how many. >> reporter: this friday engineers are working to
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pinpoint the problems of the bridge. they appear to be along the rail. >> the concern is the water is getting into the rail and then dripping down some of the bolts. that connect the barrier rail to the bolt deck. >> it's been having problems all along. it's not new. they've had it since day one. what can you expect. >> reporter: caltrans officials came under fire earlier this year for problems with bolts in the new east bay. drivers are wondering what else may be wrong. >> everything is going to have issues at first. but it's hard to measure. >> corrosion within the steel structure shouldn't be a problem as long as engineers fix the leak properly. since the bridge has a protective coating inside. >> this is not meant to be water tight. you weatherize it the best you can. >> reporter: frequent drivers agree.
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>> everything has to be a test run and we haven't had rain in so long so i'm not really worried about it. >> reporter: a team of engineers will take a closer look at the leak this afternoon. they plan on writing another update on the situation on friday. allie rasmus. more details now on the span's many problems. those bad bolts were discovered and since repaired. a few weeks ago several engineers had issues with concrete. steel decks and the tower. they said they were pressured to finish the bridge on time. caltrans insists the bridge is safe for operation. tomorrow the federal government will begin extending several marriage rights to same- sex couples regardless of which state they call home. attorney general eric holder's announcement this weekend is causing a stir on capitol hill. >> there appears to be another example of the obama administration imposing its will on the state. >> reporter: 33 states have
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laws that define marriage as between a man and woman. the research council says the federal government should not be trying to force these states to change their definition of marriage. but the senate majority disagrees that is what is happening. >> the attorney general is saying we're going to apply the same rules as we do for other married couples to same-sex couples when it comes to our courts. >> throughout the changes are the rights to refuse to testify against a spouse, to file bankruptcy together and to visit a spouse in prison. attorney general holder made the announcement in new york city. president obama has yet to comment on the extension of rights. tsa officials are refusing to pursue allegations of bad behavior. workers targeted passengers from particularly countries for pat downs and made fun of images from those full body scans.
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a tsa agent said machines that revealed too much of passengers bodies have been replaced. she also said they take swift disciplinary action if such behavior is discovered. governor brown's website has fixed an embarrassing glitch. all twitter followers including republicans were automatically listed as supporters of brown's campaign. that included likely opponents. stopping a military mystery. after special items belonging to a wartime hero were found in
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a safe. and coming up at 10:35, we'll break down shower chances and the one day for our forecast seeing chances of a few more rain droppings. -- more rain drops.
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six people are dead after a suspected drunk driver drove the wrong way on the pamona freeway in los angeles county. officials say the driver was a 21-year-old woman who slammed head on into a red ford explorer. the accident happened before dawn this morning in diamond bar. at least one more vehicle was involved. the accused drunk driver survived and was hospitalized in serious condition. lawmakers express frustration that russia is with holding information that could help protect americans there. tens of thousands of security forces are patrolling the winter olympics. southern california congressman adam shift said today that the u.s. isn't getting the kind of cooperation he wanted about the
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russians about their inside cooperation. >> as a matter of russian pride they don't want to share that. as a matter of not disclosing their methods to us. >> security efforts are described as a ring of steel around sochi. ahead of head land security -- the former head of homeland security janet napolitano speaks out about the security. napolitano said that president obama's decision not to attend the olympics was not meant to
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snub russian president. a college football star has announced he's gay ahead of the nfl draft. michael sam he's number 52 here with the university of missouri tigers. told the new york times he's proud to be gay. the all american came out to his teammates last season. by the time it was over he was voted most valuable player and defensive player of the year in the south eastern conference. he may become the first openly gay player in the nfl. many teammates tweeted their reports of sam's announcement among them cantrell's brothers who said our coaches knew all along about this and no one said anything. just shows the amount of respect we have for our family. sports journalist and missouri grad tweeted, michael sam won't be the first gay player in the nfl, just the first one to be open about it.
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awards were found in a louisville kentucky storage unit. they belonged to kruger that if alive he would be in his 90s. >> looks like he spent his whole time in world war ii. he started in a campaign in europe and finished up in asian. he was in the army with the 101st airborne or third ranger battalion. >> managers at that storage facility said they did a records search and looked on hind for grender and his family. they put the medals on display hoping to find information so they can be returned to their rightful owner. and we'll be checking in with mark to see where the rain is now as the storm slowly starts to move out of the area. >> bay area health officials say it's a contagious outbreak waiting to happen. why some parents won't get their children vaccinated and the one school that has more unvaccinated children than almost any other.
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returning now to our storm watch coverage. parts of the bay area simply are water logged. you see some flooding especially in the north bay. as we've mentioned the rain is sort of moving out now. mark is joining us now. we were looking at one of our cameras we can see some rain drops still falling at this hour. >> there's still a lot of moisture in place. the main storm is moving out but still enough moisture to produce some light showers out there. this is one of our cameras showing you wet roadways out there looking out toward oakland. it's dark right now but we do have some wet pavement out there. be extra careful for tonight into early tomorrow morning. right now on live storm tracker 2. you can't see the coverage
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out there really decreasing. even if you're not covered with the green, you still have the drizzle out there. as we come in closer to oakland and right around the richmond area and out toward fairfield and solano county. more activity to show you. parts of the east bay peppered with the showers. san jose reporting mostly cloudy skies. all the action basically drifting to the south of the bay area. but still, as i mentioned lots of clouds and a lot of moisture in place that could impact your monday morning commute. we'll have our forecast model for tomorrow morning and updated forecast for you. today the russian river looked a lot better than in weeks past. the water was throwing at 9,000 cubic feet per second. that's compared to just 40 cuber feet per second on friday. the people that live along the river are rejoicing along with water officials but they say
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the drought crisis is not over yet. >> this is what we hope is the beginning of a phenomenal february. unfortunately, the drought is still on. he says current water levels are still 6-inches lower than they were during the big drought that happened back in 1977. state officials banned recreational fishing last week because of those low water levels. you can also get the latest on the conditions outside. right on your mobile device just follow ktvu meteorologist on the ktvu app, twitter and facebook. new at 10:00, state and local health officials are trying to stop a disturbing trend that they say threatens the health of millions of californians children. new numbers show even more children are not getting all of their vaccinations. 2.79% of california school children did not get all of their shots last year and that's up from the year before. in marin county it's far worse with almost 8% of kids not getting vaccinated. that is the highest in the bay
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area. and one school in particular is off the charts. the marin county immunization coordinator gave us the outstanding statistics. >> the new village school in sausalito, 74% exemption rate. >> reporter: why would a parent not protect their children? >> vaccinations have certain chemicals in them and preservatives like mercury in some cases that are not good for children especially when they're very tiny little infants. >> no one from new village school would talk to us on camera but some parents say they understand the feelingings of others who won't get their children vaccinated -- feelings of others. >> my children have been vaccinated. but none of us have ever gotten
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a flu vaccine. and we're all okay. >> reporter: the thought that children could get autism does not wash well with parents. >> there's no difference between those two get vaccines and those who don't so it's very frustrating to see that still prevailing out there. >> reporter: more and more parents not opting to have their child vaccinated by filing a pbe or personal belief exemption. that rate has doubled in california over the last 10 years. rebecca gamen is the school nurse for 4,800 students on 7marin county campuses. she says some doctors are not doing enough to educate parents of the risks of getting the vaccine and signs off on the application. >> the parent goes there and tells them that they just don't want the vaccine. the provider talks to them and
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talks to them and if they opt out the provider is not involved. >> reporter: but not all marin parents are part of this anti vaccination movement. >> over all i have faith in the medical profession. >> there's a lot of talk about it become linked to autism. it's definitely a little ridiculous. >> a lot of people are still concerned about autism, because that's been debunked. >> and forkel says that she is worried about a break out. officials worry that they not only put their children but others at risk. leno is expected to announce legislation that could impact city college of san francisco. he is set to unveil a bill that will quote secure the financial future of ccsf. he'll be joined by mayor ed lee and several people representing the college for attending an
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announcement at city hall. the commission rejected the school's request to reverse the physician. school officials say their next step is to file a formal appeal. the performance that changed america. a look back at the legacy of the fab four. 50 years after the beatles invaded the u.s. it was a wet and wild weekend. more rain is on the way. our meteorologist mark tamayo joins us next and what you can expect for your workweek. ♪
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well very active weekend across most of the bay area. still a few lingering rain showers right now. all this activity will be scooting out to the south and to the east. right now on live storm tracker 2. we have updated the radar. as you can see lots of breaks in the rain action but still a few rain showers out there to report from oakland. right and fairfield and concord. there's one cell we're watching. nothing too extreme but enough to wet the bay area roadways as we come in closer for concord and close to the fairfield area up in solano county. but that's about it. even if you're not covered you could have heavy mist or drizzle. by compareson to show you what the rainfall has been doing for us over the past few days. february first, this is a day before the super bowl. not too long ago. these are the numbers i would be showing you up there. they are coming up right now. remember these numbers santa rosa a little over 2-inches of
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rain. oakland 2.11 that's only 18% of average. but today with the storm look at the change out there. especially up in the north bay with santa rosa picking up most of the rainfall. basically over the past two to three days out there. if it's going to show up. i'm going to go back to the weather computer and launch that because it is a very important number and we'll have that coming up for you right now. because look at the numbers coming up. san francisco goes up to 37%. still quite a ways to go. still significant rainfall the past few days. the possibility of a few scattered showers out there. we've been showing you some wet roadways over the past few hours and here's our camera in oakland. lots of cloud cover out there. morning clouds and partly cloudy skies. the extended forecast just high clouds paying us a visit. as far as the sierra, most of the activity today has been in
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the form of some rain. up above 7,000 feet some snowfall and that winter storm warning has been converted to a snow advisory. in fact, the winter weather advisory until four -- 4:00 tomorrow morning. snowfall could be four to 8- inches so that advisory in place until 4:00 tomorrow morning. over the past few days we've been talking of subtropical flow connected to hawaii. finally this is moving to the south. a few showers out there. monday there's a chance of showers. and then a sun-cloud mix into tomorrow. all the cloud cover out there. the possibility of a pop up shower at 7:00 and 8:00. skies becoming partly cloudy into the afternoon hours by 3:00 and 4:00. you can see that with the forecast tomorrow. morning at 7:00, by 12:00 the sun/cloud mix. afternoon highs on track to reach the upper 50s to lower 60s. five day forecast with your
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weekend always in view. we'll have hopes of more rainfall over the weekend. right now more chance of all that activity headed up north. forecast models try to bring in more rain drops about a week from now. we will keep an eye on that for day seven on monday. it'll be nice to go up and look at those hills becoming greener with all that rainfall. >> we look forward to it, thank you mark. the beatles made their american debut 60 years ago this weekend and of course they took the country by storm. the fab four arrived in new york city on february 7, 1964 but today is the 50th anniversary of their appearance on the ed sullivan show. 73million americans or about 40% of the nation watched that show. the song i want to hold your hand shot to the top of the charts. she loves you was right behind it at number two. >> 73 million people. that's crazy. stanford women they get shocked in seattle. >> and the at&t pebble beach
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good evening everyone and welcome to this sunday night sports wrap. we have a six play streak. it got a little dicey in the end. phil mickelson started the day in the fringes of the lead but after his 74 lifted eight strokes back. found distracks on caramel beach a little more interested. and no harm when his partners caddie shakes the ball lose.
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sadler finished 12 back. and they took their shot, kevin nob for birdie at 13. nasia to 59. in the end three strokes off the lead. others would better that score. dustin johnson started the day nine strokes back. got his night off to a great start with a chip for eagle. second and now a tough birdie put on number nine. johnson would shoot a 66. so did jim rener. rener hitting him approach at 33. he and johnson waited to see if walker could close the deal. sets up a birdie, after he made the put from there walker's lead still a comfortable six strokes. by the time he got to 11 he had

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