at this hour, looks like the carquinez bridge is not the way to go. 680 and the phoenicia bridge if you're headed in the westbound direction. in the eastbound direction, highway 4 682. earlier, problems on the santa cruz mountains summit. those have been cleared. that was roadwork that had the freeway in the northbound direction shut down. slowing for one-way traffic control on the southbound reverse direction. we will check on this and m ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you can beat it! ♪ visit youcanbeatit.org or call 833-422-4255 to ask for medication to treat covid-19. after my car accident, or call 833-422-4255 i wondered what my case was worth. so i called the barnes firm. when that car hit my motorcycle, insurance wasn't fair. so i called the barnes firm. it was the best call i could've made. atat t bararnefirmrm, our r inry a attneysys wk hahard i could've made. atat t bararnefirmrm, to get you the best result possible. call us now and find out what your case could be worth. you u mit bebe sprisised ♪ the barnes firm injury attorneys ♪ ♪ call one eight hundred, eight

but again, 80 eastbound at the carquinez bridge darya. james, back to you. thanks. reyna. >> all right. let's get to our coverage this morning. parts of california, as i mentioned earlier in the state are under a state of emergency right now. is the storm inches closer and closer. multiple bay area counties are included in the declaration. so they're preparing for damage. meantime, pg e is working to get crews station where they need to be. yeah, we talked about that a bit yesterday. they're ready to pounce and respond to wherever the power outages pop up with kron four's will tran standing by the san mateo county with a closer look at that and other parts of this coverage will good morning. >> good morning, james. and that is why the governor declared a state of emergency before the storms slammed us. now. i can tell you 21 counties throughout california. >> 13 last week. so he's used to doing this. >> and of those 21 counties that are in effect right now. 5 of them right here in the bay area, including san mateo county. sand is ready to go. if you still want so at

east near the carquinez bridge, crews are on scene. unfortunately this is a deadly crash. someone did die and it's been out there since 4:30. the hour in some spots. even west bound commuters will see a lot of brake lights. plan accordingly, travel times 80 fairfield to hercules, just over 30 minutes. if you want to use 680, it is wide open. it is a great alternate if you are trying to make the commute to vallejo. you can cut from highway 4 to 80. at the bridge it is backed up for commuters working over into san francisco. 6:19. we want to make sure you stay safe on the roads on this first alert weather day. coming up, i talk to a representative from cal trans on how they're preparing for the storm. >>> the last thing i want to do is put my heart into another house and have that destroyed. >> a northern california man forced to change his lifestyle after a heart breaking loss. we bring you this >>> welcome back on this thursday. it is a first alert weather day. an atmospheric river is on the way and we want to be sure you are prepared and stay safe. to talk about that and

and here in the late eastbound at the carquinez bridge. we have an accident there. get through. however, you're seeing delays in both the eastbound and westbound side. so make sure you factor that into your morning right? all right, james, back to you. thanks a lot, rhonda. 6.50, and to ban tiktok or not proposed laws now allow allow the feds to do just that. ban on that is called the restrict act. we've got kelli meyer with more on what this could mean for the popular chinese on social media app. >> well, tiktok, sean, by a majority of senators here on capitol hill. but even as lawmakers warn of the app as a national security threat, some senators still have it. young people should not have to go deeply in debt. i wish for you is that you continue continue to be who and how you are. 2 senators posting on tiktok even as their colleagues say that the personal data of millions of americans could end up in the hands of the chinese government. the number 2 democrat in the senate telling his colleagues to wake up to the warnings that they should have 3 china's >> maybe t

windy heading across the carquinez, venetia. it's slow for commuters heading out of the tracy on to 580. westbound 205 is starting to back up a little bit. you will see the brake lights approaching 680, dublin interchange. speeds down to 10 miles per hour in some spots commuting into the altamont pass. you will run into slick roadways this morning. keep that in mind for the wednesday morning commute. look at the travel times. everything is good. the benefits of getting up early and out the door, less traffic on the roadways and smooth commute on 80, highway 4 and 1011. westbound 80 looks great. amanda? >>> now to an interesting effect in some of san francisco's tallest buildings, glass is cracking and sometimes falling from skyscrapers. yesterday a high-rise window crashed on mission street. this has happened a few times this month. last week glass rained down from high-rises on california street. now talk about changing city building codes. we got a closer look at what is going on with all the windows. >> reporter: allen has be

it will probably go up towards the carquinez strait and off to the delta throughout this morning.cells will pop up later on with this low again in backyard. we've got the 40's currently right now. little movement expected for this afternoon, watching future cast for there. you see the rotation with our low as we reach high noon. that's we're getting a lot of daytime heating to drive these thunder showers. but again, it's not a wall of rain. it's spots here. and there of sometimes intense rain, lightning to be coming with this. so keep that in mind as well. clearing out tonight, a bit thursday should be relatively uneventful as well as friday, taking a breather. but watching a system this weekend, here's a look at the rain collection for today. so getting an impressive amount in spots here around for example, half a buck oakland picking up more than a quarter along conquered and barely a trace. as you can notice there for san francisco 0.17, compare these heavier amounts that we've seen winds also not eventful so that wind advisory has been retired for now, not likely to come back.

a line that extends off the carquinez strait. there's more to be had today and maybe even some thunder showers thrown in for good measure right now. >> talking about those slick conditions. they are still out there along your highways and bridges. so take your time as you're traveling, tracking >> all right. we're back at 5.14 and yesterday storm brought more damage across the bay area. check this out. a sight we've seen over and over again. a tree. >> on to a home this time in menlo park. this was in the willows neighborhood. >> crews red tag the house because they say the damage done was just too much to make it safe for anybody. stay in that home until. they can get it fixed. and she yeah. >> trees and guess what? the winds again, cracked windows in a san francisco high rise. the glass cracked the sales force east building on mission street between beal and first streets, at least 5 windows on the 30th floor cracked. >> wow, you a look at week that arrows. >> and fire department says that this time this time no blast onto the

we will go to this accident past the carquinez bridge. a fatal accident at 4:00 this morning. chp has issued a traffic alert. a big backup in the westbound direction. take 780 if you can avoid eastbound or westbound. drew: we are chill strapping we are still tracking a level three strong storm as the atmospheric river arrives across california. damaging winds and the potential for flooding and thunderstorms over the next 24 hours. here is future wth the system and throughout the evening and the over it -- the evening. moderate to heavy rain keeps coming. rainfall totals next 24 hours one to three inches likely for everybody. even higher in the santa cruz mountains. wins also issue. gusts up to 55 miles are possible. future tracker wind gusts showing they strengthen this evening. it is between 7:00 tonight and 4:00 tomorrow morning we'll find the heaviest impacts in terms of the wind and rain. winter storm warning starting at 10:00. two to six feet of fresh snow on an already incredible snowpack. because of storm temperatures, low to mid-50's for afternoon highs. tonight is a m

keep in mind commuting from there to the carquinez bridge, gusty this morning. be extra careful working across the span. a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, backed up working into san francisco. metering lights were turned on about 30 minutes ago. you have brake lights building there. slow across the upper deck. not at the golden gate. good overall southbound 101 at least across the span. crowded north of here through marin county. it is crowded westbound over to 101. checking traffic times, good for the most part. slowest spot is the ride across the bay bridge. i will check public transit in the next report. >> thanks. >>> an interesting effect in san francisco's tallest buildings, glass has been cracking and sometimes falling from skyscrapers. we saw this in the last couple of weeks. a high rye window crashed on mission street. no glass actually fell. but, as i said, this happened a few times this month. remember this? last week it rained down from high-rises. now there is talk about changing building codes. what is going on with the windows. >> reporter

i've circled the area approaching the bridge, the carquinez bridge, puddling from earlier. may be why we see the sensors slowing. should be clearing up soon. a little slowing for highway 4, highway 37. no problem at the bay bridge just yet. we may see metering lights on any minute. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >>> 5:33 right now. as you make your coffee run, the former starbucks ceo will be testifying before congress. he's accused of retaliating against employees looking to unionize. >> "today in the bay's" kris sanchez is joining us from santa clara. you're at one of those locations where employees have already voted to unionize. >> reporter: right, this is the store here in santa clara, and these workers did unionize. we do know that the former starbucks ceo is going to testify before a congressional committee that wants to know whether he tried to intimidate workers like these and tried to squash their unionization efforts. howard schultz will appear before a congressional committee. he abruptly resigned last week, accused of illegal anti-union tactics. 300 stores have

you will see and the carquinez strait.nwhile, that's that low that will drop towards the south as we get the heating for the day. and that means some of thatwsunshine out. there are bright white skies that only heats up the ground to fire up the energy for an isolated shower or thundershower going on for today. so we'll put that in the breakdown by 3 o'clock chance of some of those scattered thunder showers working their magic. we don't see this moisture being sprayed too far to the east. so tahoe is going probably miss out on this rain event, if you will. everybody takes a break to finish off this week in watching another little quick line saturday night and more into next week. we'll get more to that in a bit. right now. rain is standing by with a traffic update. rain. yeah, we're seeing red across the map. sold green is now randall. why don't know what they were going to see in a minute? well, just trust me on this green across the board. if you're traveling from crockett down towards the maze, a little under 30 minutes

well, we've been tracking in accident on the carquinez bridge. >> 80 eastbound. it looks like the westbound and eastbound side. impacted by that you can still get through. but you have that slight delay there as you're traveling along other highways still pretty much in the green except for 37. you're picking up their highway. 4 and slightly through nevado traveling along 101, the bay bridge. look at that. a 19 minute, right? no major issues or delays. there. your san mateo bridge, if you're traveling across towards the peninsula. about 15 minutes a 80 to 101, a richmond sandra fell bridge. put you at about a 13 minute ride at a richmond and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls about 21 minutes darya. james, back to you. thank you, anna. >> all right. well, let's get back to our storm coverage. we do have parts of the state now under state of emergency as this storm gets closer and closer multiple bay area, counties are included in this declaration and preparing for the worst. >> meantime, pgd is doing the same, getting their crews all fanned out ready for pow

heavy rain looks like around fairfield and down the carquinez strait again. still developing.et's head south because the whole package here, as you can see in the santa cruz mountains, also mount hamilton. that color is asian. that means winter type storm system. that means we're getting some snow up there potentially also and then some rain as well. so this pattern will continue all day. looks like there's a break now is trying to happen here before that low completely drop south, which means you see the sunshine out were just given the atmosphere energy, which to play with 4 more strikes of lightning today. we've got showers and thunder showers on tap temperatures in the lower to middle 50's. we're going to break to finish off the week. we'll have some rain to mention this weekend and then more unsettled weather next week as well. check area traffic and wet roads at that rain which will happen you have a lot of roads and our bridges all pretty wet for the most part. and if you're taking bart 20 minute systemwide delay. >> about 20 minutes for so that fremont street exit, if

marin county across the richmond center fell bridge from berkeley up to richmond right across the carquinez benicia on over to concord all the way down to san ramon where things are just starting to calm down for you. walnut creek are about to be seeing this cell moving further northward. rapidly intensifying rain for fall here momentarily. 24 is also quite wet. good news for the south bay is it's a little calmer for you in san jose. got a little pocket of heavy rain around santa sunnyvale and mountain view. but you do have another band of rain about to be working its way northward just on shore in the santa cruz mountains and pushing towards the peninsula in the south bay here. just in a few short moments, dust that flooding risks does continue for the santa cruz mountains. the peninsula, the south bay as well as the east bay shoreline, all under flood advisories through this morning. temps right now are in the 40's. so nothing too much to note there. it is chilly. so just put on those jackets and do of course, making a rain jacket. if you are going to be bringing the umbrella with you tod

you can see that stretching all along the carquinez out into marion county, some of our heaviest of rainow is right around fairfield actually on over into solano county. most of the rest of us looking at scattered sprinkles, but also a lot of cloud cover snowfall in the higher elevations of the sierra continued over the weekend and does continue this morning as well. but this is what we're all eyes on because this our next atmospheric river moisture laden system bringing with it some subtropical moisture. you step outside this morning. you're noticing that muggy feel to it. you've already noticed that the past few days. that's the difference that these storms are bringing in that moisture laden stream of air, creating that line of cloud cover that makes its return tonight. no daytime hours today, bringing with it off and on showers. so bring the rain jacket as you're getting out there tonight, though, this is when the real rain gets here, stays with us through those overnight hours really only intensifies into tomorrow morning. now, this compounded with really strong winds gusting 50 to

and meanwhile, off to it looks like the delta will go right through the carquinez strait, even thoughreponderance of the winds out of the northwest. but it tends to get funneled a little bit there. so a bigger pop and winds today, then we'll see tomorrow may be windy in spots today to breezy for buddy else forward in because of the cooler temperatures going call this kind of a cool breeze with all of that. you know, late winter, early spring pattern, even though we're in spring, technically. so frost early today, mostly sunny, chilly winds for the weekend. high temperatures near about 60 and a chilly start. scattered clouds until monday night. that's when some showers may develop and then rain on your tuesday morning. stormy models don't agree exactly on timing on this, but some of them pushed through right around 7 o'clock right in the peak of the commute time. so tuesday morning speak dicey yet again. coming coming with winds to wednesday. rain and scattered showers. yeah. and then variable clouds for thursday. friday might have a few leftover showers but more potent will be on wedn