>> the majority of those people who still are without power are in the community of ben loman. a tree came down and knocked down a power line right through town. pg&e crews are working late into the night to get power restored on this stretch of highway 9. this is what's left of the tree that came down earlier this morning and took out a power line. it has been cutaway by power crews and a few yards up the road one building has electricity. >> up here when you get a chance you try to get ahead of the ballgame. a lot of us have small generators. >> his generator is humming along at his general store, but some neighbors are making do with tiki lamps. >> this is our first for the year. usually they don't hit until january, february, but this time they caught us a little early. >> highway 9 through ben loman has been shutdown since 10:00. that means plenty of drivers have had to turn around and find alternate routes. >> i will find one of the roads that loops around. i will go to manzanita avenue. my friend is having a brie tall shower. bridal shower. >> they estimate the road will

>> the majority of those people who still are without power are in the community of ben loman. a tree came down and knocked down a power line right through town. pg&e crews are working late into the night to get power restored on this stretch of highway 9. this is what's left of the tree that came down earlier this morning and took out a power line. it has been cutaway by power crews and a few yards up the road one building has electricity. >> up here when you get a chance you try to get ahead of the ballgame. a lot of us have small generators. >> his generator is humming along at his general store, but some neighbors are making do with tiki lamps. >> this is our first for the year. usually they don't hit until january, february, but this time they caught us a little early. >> highway 9 through ben loman has been shutdown since 10:00. that means plenty of drivers have had to turn around and find alternate routes. >> i will find one of the roads that loops around. i will go to manzanita avenue. my friend is having a brie tall shower. bridal shower. >> they estimate the road will

>> the majority of those people who still are without power are in the community of ben loman. a tree came down and knocked down a power line right through town. pg&e crews are working late into the night to get power restored on this stretch of highway 9. this is what's left of the tree that came down earlier this morning and took out a power line. it has been cutaway by power crews and a few yards up the road one building has electricity. >> up here when you get a chance you try to get ahead of the ballgame. a lot of us have small generators. >> his generator is humming along at his general store, but some neighbors are making do with tiki lamps. >> this is our first for the year. usually they don't hit until january, february, but this time they caught us a little early. >> highway 9 through ben loman has been shutdown since 10:00. that means plenty of drivers have had to turn around and find alternate routes. >> i will find one of the roads that loops around. i will go to manzanita avenue. my friend is having a brie tall shower. bridal shower. >> they estimate the road will

san francisco, a quarter inch, and redwood city, third inch, and nearly a half inch near ben loman. we're still watching the surf. a high surf advisory until 10:00 tonight. the swells anywhere from 10 to 14 feet. so dangerous out there. here's a look at more overnight lows. plenty of upper 20s from antioch to fairfield. cloverdale. low 30s, napa. san francisco and oakland, milder. look at palo alto. 33, 35 in san jose, 32 in santa cruz, going to be awfully cool over the next several nights. here's the area of low pressure dropping to the south. high pressure building in tomorrow but a weak system over the sierra nevada is going to slide down the coast. so, by late tomorrow, we could see a few clouds, maybe a sprinkle in the south bay, the santa cruz mountains but much of the day featuring sunshine but increasing clouds on monday. and here's the chance of rain that's going to come in new year's eve. shouldn't be much. don't have to worry but the possibility exitses. high temperatures tomorrow, 50s. snow should be ending in the sierra nevada, and back home, lower 50s. so not much of a

francisco. 1.17 in san rafael. .91 of an inch. .47 in concord and look down south in san jose. .61 and ben loman picking up an inch and a half of rain. i just updated the computer models and i want to show you when the timing of the next storm is and when we are expecting. the storm is different from what i showed you. dan, i will be back with the details. >> i will see you shortly. lots of snow for skiers. avalanche danger is considerable for the sierra. two skiers died in two days at donner ski ranch as the result of avalanches. an expert lists the way you can tell that an avalanche is likely. >> we feel the snowpack collapsing underneath us. if we see the shooking cracks opening up across the surface and nonconsequential terrain. we had a lot of rapid warming and rain on snow. those are all easy things to understand that nature is telling you the snowpack is unstable. >> you really have to pay attention to the surroundings. the snowpack is unstable, but there is a lot of it. a water content is 146% above normal. that is encouraging. cal trans is allowing control traffic through the rock slide

inch..91 ofd .47 in concord and look down south in san jose. .61 and ben loman picking up an inch and half of rain. i just updated the computer models and i want to show you when the timing of the next storm is and when we are expecting. the storm is different from what i showed you. dan, i will be back with the details. >> i will see you shortly. lots of snow for skiers. avalanche danger is considerable for the sierra. two skiers died in two days at donner ski ranch as the result of avalanches. an expert lists the way you can tell that an avalanche is likely. >> we feel the snowpack collapsing underneath us. if we see the shooking cracks opening up across the surface and nonconsequential terrain. we had a lot of rapid warming and rain on snow. those are all easy things to understand that nature is telling you the snowpack is unstable. >> you really have to pay attention to the surroundings. the snowpack is unstable, but there is a lot of it. isater content is 146% above that is encouraging. cal trans is allowing control traffic through the rock slide area south of big sure -- big sur

francisco. 1.17 in san rafael. .91 of an inch. .47 in concord and look down south in san jose. .61 and ben loman picking up an inch and a half of rain. i just updated the computer models and i want to show you when the timing of the next storm is and when we are expecting. the storm is different from what i showed you. dan, i will be back with the details. >> i will see you shortly. lots of snow for skiers. avalanche danger is considerable for the sierra. two skiers died in two days at donner ski ranch as the result of avalanches. an expert lists the way you can tell that an avalanche is likely. >> we feel the snowpack collapsing underneath us. if we see the shooking cracks opening up across the surface and nonconsequential terrain. we had a lot of rapid warming and rain on snow. those are all easy things to understand that nature is telling you the snowpack is unstable. >> you really have to pay attention to the surroundings. the snowpack is unstable, but there is a lot of it. a water content is 146% above normal. that is encouraging. cal trans is allowing control traffic through the rock slide

around ben loman we're getting steadier rainfall. in sierra nevada chain controls remain in effect.tures now mainly 50s and a few 40s around fairfield, highlights, scattered showers tonight. heavy rain tomorrow morning could see isolated thunderstorms popping up. there is rain into holiday weekend featuring sometime whuz may be able to go out and do shopping. we're now watching some unstable air behind it with another system coming through. and this is how it plays out. tonight, showers, nothing too heavy until later on tonight going into wee hours of the morning. 3:00 a.m. possibly thunder. you can see east bay, south bay may get heavy rainfall along with the thunderstorms. and saturday just scattered showers going into evening f you have plans for holidays, or doing some shopping just carry umbrellas. sunday morning next round moves in. 3:00 a.m. there are light returns going on. a next cold front coming through we can see some urban flood advisory goesing up, ponding of roadways. we're not looking at main rivers this is through sunday evening. looking at rainfall totals through 7