alyssa goard, today in the bay. >>> and we're going to stick with alyssa goard for just one second. k in pleasanton. alyssa shot this video at arroyo de la laguna. we want to give you some perspective on how high this water rose yesterday. alyssa has gone out to that same spot along the creek periodically over the last couple of months. this picture was taken back in the beginning of september. there's a little water, if you can make it out, in the center of your screen, but mostly brown and green brush. alyssa went back out to that same spot two months later, definitely a decent amount of water out there in november. and then, here is yesterday. the area completely submerged in the water. how cool to have that perspective. >>> san francisco homes also were damaged by that rising water. sf fire tweeted this video. you can see the water racing down those stairs inside that home. firefighters say the floodwaters impacted four different homes near loconte and mead avenues near candlestick park. about a dozen people with now displaced. what an unfortunate way to start the new year. and s

alyssa goard, "today in the bay." >>> meanwhile, people in the south bay on cleanup mode as "today in the bay's" marianne favro reports in east palo alto the damage is worse than they expected. >> reporter: there is a huge cleanup job under way right now here at this apartment complex on manhattan avenue. you can see all of the mud and debris here. last night the water flooded so much it rose above the wheel wells of most of the vehicles here. they've been trying to pump it out. in san mateo, cars are still under water. at least three vehicles remain nearly submerged after water flooded this underpass. jim garibaldi was here and watched a woman drive her car onto the flooded street. >> she basically lost traction and it floated all the way on the other side and submerged. probably took maybe two minutes, three minutes. we saw taillights and that was basically it for maybe a minute and after that it went completely under water. >> reporter: jim called 911. minutes later a san mateo police officer arrived. >> he wanted to know where the car was because he couldn't see it. it was submerg

alyssa goard is in contra costa county where a church is dealing with a muddy mess.ut we want to get right to rob mayeda. is there really an end in sight for these storms? >> there is. it's tomorrow. finally we're going to see that things are going to settle down. hang on. we still have one more storm to deal with. now there's been enough rain. and now for the first time since february 2019, lexington reservoir has reached the spillway level at 100% capacity. an incredible run of a rise of 66.7% capacity in just the last 45 days. this is a snapshot of our reservoirs going back to december 1st. now look at these three weeks of atmospheric river boosted storms have done. uvas, coyote, almaden and now lexington up to 100%. marin water, east bay mud close to the 100% level as these raines rains continue. all of this leading up to more rises on rivers tomorrow. alameda creek at niles, same time. another rise up to 12.8 feet, about 3.8 feet above flood stage early tomorrow morning. flood watches up till midnight tomorrow night. after that things do calm down, but another t

"today in the bay's" alyssa goard reports from san rafael. >> reporter: we don't know how fast that car was going, but chp tells us the tesla feared off of the road, into that fence, creating that hole and careened across the backyard, landing in the pool. a staggering site in san rafael, a crane lifting a 2019 tesla out of a backyard pool. pool water rushing out of the vehicle. >> and i heard a loud, like, boom. and i jumped you have out of bed. >> reporter: barbara cuffner lives here. saturday morning, she said she heard what she thought was thunder and lightning and saw lights in her pool. but it wasn't thunder or lightning. it was a tesla. the chp says a woman in her 70s was behind the wheel when for unknown reasons, she veered to the right, crossing bayview road, crashing through the fence, plowing through the backyard, and into barbara's pool. >> i just called 911. >> reporter: barbara said a friend was there at the time and tried to help. >> and he was trying to break the car to get the person out, but he couldn't. >> reporter: paramedics arrived shortly after, but the woman died

"today in the bay's" alyssa goard reports from san francisco. >> reporter: rachel abrams lives right next to san francisco's twin peaks park. >> you can still see water coming down. >> reporter: on january 3rd she noticed mud sliding down the hill onto the street and towards her house. she's been following the trickling water up the trail to twin peaks and says the mud has gotten worse. >> and people use this hiking trail all the time. >> reporter: here's a look in the daytime, she reported it to the city, but says she hasn't heard anything since. with more rain on the way, she's worried. >> my daughter's bedroom is right behind the garage right now, and i'm like maybe i'll have her sleep upstairs. >> reporter: as another storm approaches, pg&e says 14,000 people are still without power like this redwood city man who's been in the dark since early thursday morning. >> it's been out since then. they keep promising so we'll just keep our fingers crossed. >> reporter: also in san mateo county, cars tried to drive on the road anyway and then got stuck in the mud. >> somebody tried it and

alyssa goard is in san francisco with the latest. >> reporter: at the pink onion restaurant in san franciscowaited break in the rain means all hands on deck mopping floors and drying out furniture. >> it's a race guentzel type. >> reporter: staff say flooding on new year's eve left them with two feet of water inside, breaking refrigerators, ruining food and plumbing. more rain the past few days didn't p he. >> since we're a small business, it's tough. >> reporter: they weren't the only oning sprining into action. trees fell on wires and a house. it's been alled happens onning deb. the utility has more than 3,000 people on the ground addressing damage. >> in some cases crews are out restoring power, setting new poles and trees were falling around them. so we had to pull them out because they're not safe in those locations. >> reporter: while drier skies are helping them restore power more quickly and safely, pg&e acknowledges upcomingle storms may bring delays. >> it may be possible some customers will experience outages that will last more than 48 hours. in those cases, they will be receivin

nbc bay area's alyssa goard was there. >> what's his name! >> reporter: hundreds of protesters in downtown oakland, sharing heartbreak and outrage over the death of tyre nichols who was fatally beaten by five police officer. what happened to nichols stirs memories of people who have been killed by police in the bay area. >> i want to know how many times we have to come out here and say the names of another young black man or woman who's been murdered by police. how many times? i've been doing this since the 1970s. >> reporter: uncle bobby reminded the crowd his nephew, oscar grant was killed 14 years ago. the officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. local business owner nina joyner wants to make sure nothing like that happens again. >> i keep the hope that we can actually reform the police and be able to work with the community and not to where the community feels like there's movement, there's compassion. >> reporter: local officials were part of the march and rally. among the speakers, newly-elected district attorney pamela pri

alyssa goard explains what it's going to take to reopen. >> lots of people have been driving up here to the entrance of the oakland zoo tonight. many of them with tickets to the glow-fari event. the entrance to the zoo at golf links road now impassable. where cars used to drive through the road has caved in, revealing what the zoo described as 10 foot by 10 foot sinkhole. the zoo says this was cause bade collapsed culvert which connects to a creek, overburdened by a historic amount of rainwater. >> when you have this volume of velocity and volume of water, this is unprecedented. >> reporter: zoo staff say the animals are all safe and employees will continue to come by and take care of them. but the zoo will be closed to the public until at least january 17 while the entrance is repaired. >> this may look initially like a sinkhole that could be circular or something like that, but it's revealed that this is a stream crossing, that's the likely cause for what happened here. >> reporter: brian collins says with the big weather event in the bay area this weekend it's not surprising to se

in pittsburg, alyssa goard, nbc bay area news. >>> let's take you to santa cruz county where they'res raging. individual grow this afternoon shows a massive tree floating down that river. fortunately it moved through, otherwise it could have created a serious and literal logjam. >>> daryl hardy set up a zip line when he thought the main road might go out. he's happy he did. last weekend the bridge washed away. he thought it might, tan did, cutting off grizzly flat road. several families would have been completely stranded if not for mr. hardy's zip line. >> >> we live in the woods, you have to be preened. we have seven households up here. some are in their 80, 70, 60s, as we are, and as young as 3 years old. >> he put that in new year's weekend and the tiny neighborhood has had to rely on the zip line for weeks now, carry things back and forth, get people back and forth. the power has been out most of 2023, and there are lots of downed trees as well. engineers can't start repairing the bridge until water levels go down. >> our team is posting pictures, videos as the storms move throu

alyssa goard, nbc bay area news. >>> earlier today, concord was hit hard.w into wires causing explosions. this explosion happened on concord boulevard near glazier drive. in pacifica, a road is open after a power pole was downed there. >> let's show you the current pg&e outage map. we got an update about ten minutes ago. right now about 7,000 customers are in the dark. >> with storm after storm some people in the bay area are in a cycle. a break in the rain means a chance to clean up and get ready for the next powerful storm. christie smith spoke to people hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. >> reporter: in palo alto, residents came out on a dry sunday to fill up sandbags. >> muddy. i have plastic tarping on the doors and sandbags. >> reporter: this neighbor told us she has sandbags and boards at her mace near the san francis key toe creek. she added more this week and is filling up extras so they're ready to go for those who may not find it easy to fill up the bags. >> buckets are a lot easier to use when you're by yourself. >> reporter: neigh

in oakland alyssa goard, nbc bay area news. >>> we'll be tracking things overnight, see exactly when the bad weather returns. tune in to "today in the bay" from 4:30 to 7:00 tomorrow morning for your updated forecast. >>> near sacramento residents were told to seek higher ground immediately before levees breached. water spilled over the levee wall in two places, near wilton and sacramento county yesterday, and people who live around the river had just a few hours' warning that the levee was going to fail. sacramento county issued a state of emergency because of the flooding along the river. at least one man's death is being blamed on this storm. rescue crews search for hours for a man in a car they believe was swept off the road. when they found the car, it was underwater and the man had died. in many other cases first responders got there in time, rescuing dozens of people from the high water. >> we couldn't see anything. there was a truck that was ahead of us. so when the truck actually went through, then two other cars went and then i was the third car. and by the time i got to wh