it shows the lightning overnight in kernville. you can see the rain coming down as the lightning lights up the sky. a similar story in many parts of the north bay. i was awoken late last night because of the thunder. in sonoma county overnight. check out this new video of a power pole split in half. it could be due to a possible lightning strike. it caused wires to come down, shutting down power for a large area in hillsboro. santa rosa fire department says several trees and power lines are down around the city. it tweeted video showing a tree that fell into a car while it was being repaired. one person was injured and taken to the hospital. outside of forceful, sonoma county f fire fighters saw this fallen tree across river road. they were able to break the tree apart using chainsaws and they cleared river road is back open. we will have more on sonoma county in just a moment. we will bring on linda hopkins, the supervisor there. in san francisco, crews are still cleaning up from the last storm as a next one comes in. a storm swa

as it didn'ts in kernville and other areas -- resident s in kernville and other areas are expected toar the area. >> this one looks like it is going to be pretty vulnerable and get up pretty high. >> are you scared? >> no. not at all. it is just a pain in the butt. liz: the threat of flooding is deja vu for some in the area. in 2019, heavy rain turned the streets of kernville into swamps, leaving cars submerged in people used canoes together the area. one sonoma county family is dealing with a heartbreaking situation. their two-year-old son was killed during the storm after a tree fell and crashed into their home. abc 7's tim johns talk to the family about their devastating loss and brings us their story. >> it has been a nightmare, like living a nightmare. tim: for this family of sonoma county, the past few days have been unimaginable. during wednesday's tone, four trees fell on their house, destroying their home and killing their two-year-old son. >> and we called him goldie. so, goldie, is now place. tim: his aunt is spokesperson for the family. we spoke to her friday afternoon in

downpours into kernville about 73. santa rosa road 6:49 a.m. this line will cross the entire bay area and it is with this line we could see thunderstorms developing and downpours that could great new pockets of flooding. we are at a level strong storm of this morning as that line moves through because the flood threat is elevated and it is breezy and gusty. how it looks today, this morning we have scattered downpours, new pockets of flooding are likely. this afternoon and evening we are going to try out and see cleanup from our storm. let's check in with jobina. we have some issues with traffic. jobina: a brand-new crash that does not sound good in sunol right now. we are talking about a head on crash involving a big rig. someone is trapped inside their vehicle on state route 284 before 680. it is a jamming up both directions because it isrash. you are looking at speeds around three miles per hour. they have issued a sig alert. adys was talki los altos hills, we still have a tree down blocking at least two lanes on 280. we are finding that powe

the heaviest rain around kernville and jenner.pretty good downpour highway 1 through bolinas. elsewhere it is offshore. this radar picture will be filling in with gusty winds and more moderate rain through the afternoon. the heaviest stuff around dinner toward the late evening. liz: good to know. thank you for joining us on abc 7 mornings. i am liz kreutz along with lisa argen. coming up, nfl football on abc 7. the raiders take on the kansas city chiefs from allegiant stadium. at 5:00 the jacksonville jaguars host the tennessee titans. stay tuned around 8:00 and abc 7 news continues at 11:00. stay dry. ♪ (upbeat music) - hi everyone, and welcome to legal help center. this is where we have professionals standing by to answer your questions regarding personal injury. so if you've been injured in an accident that was not your fault, like a car accident or a slip and fall, we can help. as a matter of fact, we are here to help. so take that first step and call the number on your screen right now. we have legal professionals standing by

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will rodriguez is in kernville -- gloria rodriguez is in kernville without is looking. reporter: concerns about low-lying areas, but there is some relief for residents because they canceled the flood warning for the russian river. we are man into this. check out this footage, there is a huge tree blocking river road in sonoma county, the road going into kernville. it came down around 3:00 this morning. crews have now clearly wrote. >> what we will go to was a miss. we have treats -- trees down, slides, massive road failures. reporter: rescue the driver trapped in a mercedes. let's see if we can hear from a resident there. the district five supervisor kamala hopkins says eyes continue to be on the russian river. they did have information on sonoma county's website for those who need to leave their home becauf ose fodloing.live ia rodriguez, abc7 news napa county is pressing for more potential reggie: are receding but some intersections are still flooded out from the recent new year's storm. it was his impound some people who express their patricians with roads near big b

the others are in durham bill. -- kernville. reggie: the white house approves governor newsom's request to declare a of emergency. that includes napa, san mateo, sonoma, and santa cruz counties. their quest comes the same day storms battered the sacramento area. some powerful winds were as strong as 70 mph. residents who live along the river are being urged to evacuate immediately in anticipation of the river flooding over. the same area was slammed by at last weekends atmospheric river, which led to multiple levee failures. at one point, more than 300,000 customers were without power in sacramento county. some people in castro valley are waiting for relief from a giant eucalyptus tree. it fell on a home and pinned a man underneath it. firefighters spent about an hour trying to rescue him. his wife and four kids were able to get out safely. if he hadn't been on the couch right where he was or if the whole family had been there, it could have been a lot worse. this tree fell st house and onto the street. they can get the power ba

we have a flood warning near kernville. it will crest tomorrow at 11:00 p.m.reating moderate flooding we also have a concern on alameda creek near niles. this will crest early tomorrow morning moderate flooding is expected there as well. we will talk about when the worst time will be. >> good morning, everyone. you were with us just a you minutes ago and you heard me mention some problems for the san mateo bridge. if you are traveling in the westbound direction on 92 right before the 101 interchange we have a stalled vehicle there it is blocking at least oneatoohele alcause of standin isk om t sdge the right hand side you can see it as a tow truck on the way curious if it's going to help but that vehicle but also if you are traveling in the eastbound direction you are going to run into standing water on industrial boulevard. live look right now at the bay bridge toll plaza the triplets are beginning to pick up on this camera. this is were a large amount of our commuters will be coming from this morning. flooding and landslide cleanup between mission boulevard

moderate flooding is forecast near kernville especially. we will talk more about how much rain you can expect coming up in just a few minutes. >> if you were with us following up on the landslide and flooding issues, that is all back today they are trying to clean it up and they are giving us an estimated completion date of january 6 at 6:00 p.m. so that is what we're looking at right now this is at mission boulevard. all lanes are currently blocked on the westbound and eastbound side. i look from the golden gate bridge camera you heard during mention rain is starting to move in. definitely some slick conditions. we have already heard of reports of spin outs. that is what you can run into if you are not careful out there. please stay home if you can. we will wrap up your with the drive times now sotos reported, it is pretty early in terms of the commute. >> we have cruises spread out across the area to check in on the conditions. we now go to lena howland. >> right now heading towards richmond where the rain is starting to hit right now. i

let's talk about the flood watch in effect, a flood warning for the russian river near kernville. a flood watch continues to tomorrow. several inches of rain, especially in the higher elevations. not only possible flooding, but also landslides, debris flow. trees will be coming down with gusty winds. sustained winds right now about 40 miles an hour at half moon bay. 40 miles an hour in oakland. the wind gusts will pick up as we head through the evening. the high wind warning to 10:00 in determining. the strongest guest around 50 miles per hour. some of the highest elevations close to 70 miles per hour. be ready for possible power outages. >>> santa cruz county's issued an a machination order for people in the white house canyon road in the daffodil lane area . we are talking to go directly. there are several other evacuations e at warn . inan francisco, puic wos where getting sandbag that you could try to protect your property. leslie? >> reporter: let me tell you, the rain has calms down a great deal since we have been out here . and just a few minutes ago, we saw a truckload of

drew: update on the russian river near kernville.minor flooding early tomorrow morning ashe tiv r first crest, 30.8 feet. were ach w closely. early sunday morning is when we expect moderate flooding. major flooding on the russian river at this point. looks like there crest is at 38.1 feet. scattered showers out there right now with downpours as well. we are watching this line here likely bringing more downpours later this morning and the threat of a thunderstorm. you heard gloria say that it was windy out there. 30 in the abc impact scale, threat this morning. breezy and gusty. future weather showing you the line screen. there could be isolated flooding. more rain is on the way in the next seven days. more on that in about eight minutes. let's go to jobina with traffic. jobina: if you were with us yesterday or even the day before, then you are familiar with this issue. between fremont and said hola on highway 84, the entire stretch from mission boulevard all the way over to main street is completely shut down and that is because of w

we are heading to kernville but we came across this issue at river road in sonoma county. a giant tree is blocking this roadway. officials tell us they came down around 3:00 this morning so this is the type of stuff we are still dealing with because of the rain, the wind and fire crews are here. we saw more crews arriving to clear that tree from the roadway so that people can get through and get to gernville. they did cancel the flood warning for the russian river so the river will crest below 32 feet. i have some footage to show you. the parking lot at steelheadjo'e yard flooded and his only way out was by boat. two cars submerged in floodwaters at the river road outside of santa rosa. fire crews helping rescue the driver trapped in a mercedes. >> what we woke up to was more of a mess. we have trees down, mudslides, folks trapped in areas with major road failures. gloria: sonoma county district five supervisor lynda hopkins says eyes continue to be on the russian river. low-lying areas around the river already feeling the impact. back here live at river road in sonoma cou

dan: we have team coverage for you with stephanie sierra live in kernville. but let's start with spencer christian and a look at the rain that is on the way and the timing for that. sandhya: -- spencer: i will start with live doppler seven. we have a few showers left from our weakening storm. it is almost over. i will show you what is coming our way starting overnight and into sunday morning. a level two, moderate storm that will produce showers and gusty wind. saturday evening especially, downed trees may occur. here is the forecast animation starting at 11:00 tonight. storm intensifies and expands through the entire bay area, gets even stronger as the day goes on tomorrow. watch the storm heavy downpours and gusty wind. this will give us a drenching but will start to wind down early sunday morning. very high concerns for flooding on roads, creeks, and streams. high concerns for downed trees, moderate concern for power outages. we still have a high surf advisory in effect even as the wave heights diminish a bit. they are above average, and that will be in ef

we have just learned the sonoma county sheriff's office says the russian river at kernville will crest at 8:00 a.m. tuesday, but they say the flooding will not be as bad as 2019. but some residents have already been flooded out by the storm overnight. >> we got two feet of water, two or three feet of water in the garage. cornell: this was the flooding insight grace bernard's apartment in forest will after the storm moved through saturday night. grace says it happened so fast. >> i can see there is water rushing down the hillside so we were a little concerned. and then 10 minutes later, i , come back out there is a foot of water outside of my door. cornell: grace said she grabbed what she could and moved to higher ground, but sadly, she lost most of her belongings. >> i was worried about my clothes. i realized as it got higher, in a matter of minutes, he realized they needed to get out my birth -- i realized that i needed to get out my birth certificate, my money, my computer. cornell: lightning lit up the sky, bringing thunder and heavy rain. winds blew down this carport on snyder lane

. >> much of the bay area got a break from the rain friday but not kernville work poured off and on throughout the day. >> the russian river didn't look all that menacing friday, but it's expected to get above flood stage early next week. seems to be more frequent the last 10 years or so. which is unfortunate and locals have seen it all before and are in fact concerned. we're going to hunker down state. we're on high kind of high ground. so. we've been through it before, but they are getting prepared. >> we need better because we're out of electricity. and pga need just called and said they estimate will be back in power. 10 o'clock sunday. >> at the 5 and dime, they're stocking up on other items are number one right now is candy candles and just because of our obvious power of power outages. and when you're going through stressful times, people can be so close on a lot of candy and candles. >> when the storms come along, the russian river, there are various concerns. one is that your home will be flooded. but the other is the roads will be flooded. so you can't leave your home. one of the mor

. >> much of the bay area got a break from the rain friday but not kernville work poured off and on throughout the day the russian river didn't look all that menacing friday, but it's expected to get above flood stage early next week. seems to be more frequent the last 10 years or so. >> which is unfortunate and locals have seen it all before. and are that concerned? we're going to hunker down. stay. we're on high kind of high ground. so. we've been through it before, but they are getting prepared. >> we need better because we're out of electricity. and pga need just called and said they estimate will be back in power. 10 o'clock sunday. >> at the 5 and dime, they're stocking up on other items are number one right now is candy candles and just because of our obvious power of power outages. and when you're going through stressful times, people need can be so close on a lot of candy and candles. >> when the storms come along, the russian river, there are various concerns. one is that your home will be flooded. but the other is the roads will be flooded. so you can't leave your home. one of the m

. >> many folks in kernville have been getting ready this week for flooding andons stacking sandbags around shops and homes. a >> right now not had power since wednesday afternoon. >> daniel lives in cassidy arrow where toppled trees are everywhe highway look like thursday morning? quacks like tre j branches. >> he worries floodwater from the river could leave him stranded. >> the biggest fear for me as being stuck. >> it is not just the river first responders are watching santa rosa creek which i are getting ready for the possibility of water res r rescue teams like this one from the santa rosa fire department are doing last-minute training. ready to respond to emergencies in real-time. >> they have been busy not only training but pre-surveying a lot of our creeks, streams and find problem spots. just so we are doing everything we can. >> firefighters urge creeks to be ready to leave their homes if water rises. >> just have a plan b andto gogo-bag pactow you're going to connect with your family and how you will deal with the situation especially if it is at night and you lose power.

laurier -- gloria rodrÍguez is live in kernville. t rain on and off today and those low-lying areas, the riviera -- river of the areas that were most impact and as we are were driving -- as we were driving care, a huge tree went down on river road in sonoma -- samoa county sonoma county -- sonoma county. two cars summers in floodwaters at the river road outside santa rosa and fire crews helping to rescue our driver trapped in a mercedes. the road closures forcing residents to find other ways home. one person woke up to flooding and she says she had no power since wednesday and she is not the only one. >> we are used to no power and power outages so we are hanging tough and there is a lot of support. we are writing through it. --riding through it. gloria: linda hopkin says eyes continues to be on the russian review cresting below 32 feet and the cancellation of the flood warning of the russian river and some good news of residents here. sonoma county has information online for those who have to leave their homes kumasi: you can see on

in kernville, stephanie sierra, abc 7 news.he south bay you may not have gotten other -- haven't gotten as much rain as other places in the bay area. dustin dorsey shows us how roofing companies are struggling to keep up with the calls. dustin: these guys may be blue overhead but that does not mean we are done with the storm. in fact, the cleanup work is just beginning especially for roofing companies in the south bay. the roofing business is interesting because every time it rains, you don't sleep well. i haven't slept well the last few nights. >> what's been keeping him up at night is more than 150 calls for service and repair over just the last few days of the storm. one of those calls coming from benson lee's>> it's been knots,s worried that the neighborhood was going to flood. it was new year's eve that this was happening, i was walking into the spare headroom and i felt to drip. i thought oh no. >> for him he was minimal damage. crews are trying to provide temporary fixes until the storms pass and a temporary -- and a per

we will have a higher crest on sunday, getting close to 40 feet, 40 feet on the russian river at kernville. here is your weather, heavy rain right on top of us. see the pups of red on your screen, that's rain falling at one, 1.5 inches per hour. we still have pockets o rain as this atmosphere slowly classes -- slowly crosses through. the best thing you can do right now it is if you can't be -- if you don't have to be outside right now during the storm, stay inside where you are. this heavy rain will move through the next couple of hours. we are getting between one and two inches of rain, but it's not out of the question to see higher amounts than this. we are getting to the worst part of the storm, with heavy rain st winds, and we will track it through the the rest of the evening. when spencer comes back, we will look at the next seven days. ama: we have our reporters across the area bringing you reports from hotspots. >> it looks like the wind is really whipping up, your hair is blowing around. >> we are in emeryville tonight and the wind is fierce, gosh, i am fighting to stand up in this

we already have flood concerns at the russian river in kernville -- g it will not fall below flood stagey afternoon. also watching alameda creek. we will see moderate flooding early tomorrow morning at 1:00 a.m.. the creek will crest around 11 feet. it will not fall below flood stage until 9:00 p.m. we will be trackinigrm the region.nanother batchoop abh that will create more issues on the roads as the commute goes on. flood watch in effect for the entire region. the highest threat for flooding is between 2:00 and 9:00 as this atmospheric river slowly crawls over us. not only a flood threat but a window threat. high wind warning in effect for the entire region. later this afternoon, wind will gust at 50, 60 miles per hour, if not higher. right now the strongest wind is gusting in napa, 30 miles per hour. things will really ramp up after 1:00. our warm front moving through right now. very strong storm, a significant storm pretty strong with gusty wind. this tail will today and bring us heavy rain and the wind threat. on the abc 7 exclusive storm impact scale, level five severe storm. heav

that is not hitting the ground, but we have reports of light rain right now, and it is falling near kernville as well, so the storm is organized. on the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale, this is a level one flight storm, so we can expect this fast-moving cold fronts way through, light rain and break downpours, here's the forecast animation and you can see from now until 930 tonight, not until 90 expect the storm front to sweep down to the golden gate into san francisco in the east bay, and then later down the south bay. and then we wind down during the morning hours, in fact before the morning against, we expect it to have begun by then. just over 2/10 of an inch in san francisco expected, some locations like richmond will probably get up to about four tens of inch, and send josÉ expect about one 107 inch. live here from our exploratory camera looking at part of this skylight here in san francisco, temperature readings are in the mid 50's, just about everywhere. in palo alto, and 53 and san jose 56. we still drive to golden gate, traffic is moving freely, and we don't see any rainfall appro

we can tell you the power has just come back on in downtown kernville. it has been out since last night when the storm moved in. all eyes are on the rising russian river which could reach flood stage by this weekend. we are talking about a heartbreaking loss of a child during the storm. the storm tragically claiming the life of two-year-old eon. firefighter say the toddler w killed wednesday night when a redwood tree crashed into the family's home in western sonoma county. >> when i first arrived on scene a frantic father came out with a child. he was covered in debris. he said my child is not breathing. >> the family sharing these pictures with us. they say he had a kind loving spirit. highway 116, the road to guernsey was wet, windy and treacherous. wednesday storm knocked up power to most of the town but that is not the biggest worry. berlin fisher w wrapping as many sandbags as he could ready to protect his business from the rising russian river. >> the water comes from behind. it comes from all the creeks behind us. we had to seal up all the doors i

this part of kernville -- guerneville saw flooding in 2019 here is a video from four years ago.is is when the rising russian river flooded the road and the nearby communities. it was so serious there was no white -- no way in and out it set by watercraft. that the time the river reached its highest level since 1990 seven even bringing in the garden to help people get out. that is why county officials are taking this storm serious this week. telling everyone to prepare and get out now before things get worse. we did check on the russian river and the level is still thankfully relatively low with no flooding yet, but the rain is starting to come down on us now area it could change things clear. remember, if you do have to evacuate, take all essential items with you such as medications. live in guerneville abc 7 news. kumasi: a fire truck ladder rescue on camera. look at this. a father and two young girls were rescued on the hood of a pickup truck by fire crews using a fire ladder during the storms last night. they were found stuck in rising floodwater. they were off westbound high

. >> much of the bay area got a break from the rain friday but not kernville work poured off and on throughout the day. >> the russian river didn't look all that menacing friday, but it's expected to get above flood stage early next week. seems to be more frequent the last 10 years or so. which is unfortunate and locals have seen it all before. and are concerned? we're going to hunker down. stay. we're on high kind of high ground. so. we've been through it before, but they are getting prepared. >> we need better because we're out of electricity. and pga need just called and said they estimate will be back in power. 10 o'clock sunday. >> at the 5 and dime, they're stocking up on other items are number one right now is candy candles and just because of our obvious power of power outages. and when you're going through stressful times, people need can be so close on a lot of candy and candles. >> when the storms come along, the russian river, there are various concerns. one is that your home will be flooded. but the other is the roads will be flooded. so you can't leave your home. one of the more

as rainfall continues to settle in, people living in kernville, -- have prepared to evacuate in caseooding. the flood stage by this afternoon, however, folks may be in luck with the latest workout this morning shows it is not going to reach that level. we will see. we are seeing dramatic rescues not only in the bay area but across the state. in laguna hills, a woman had to be airlifted out of an overflowing creek. she was seen hanging onto a tree in fast-moving water. rescue crews used a helicopter to drop down and pulled her up. nationwide, the south has also been impacted by tornadoes touching down on seven states, leaving -- killing at least nine people one o many of them alabama. julia jackson knows one of them. yulia: just threw them down. all you can do is just pray. it hurts so bad to see my community like this. liz: now forecasters say the storm that has already claim 17 lives in the west ha is now moving inwards. bringing snow to the northeast later this week. a series of storms we have experienced here are atmospheric rivers, tripping -- which are tricky whether systems are

so a lot of different elements that people up here in kernville are facing.e, the biggest concern being the russian river flooding up into town and of course, we'll keep our eye on this this morning. that's why we're here to talk with people and monitor the current conditions. back to you. >> ok, thanks a lot for the update. sarah, we'll check back with you later. >> on the peninsula, we have photographs of a massive pine tree that fell onto a home on the pacific heights boulevard area. san ramon. >> seeing the video there. the route sticking up in the air. this tree was big. they say it was 60 to 80 feet tall. >> when it came down, it slammed into the home, damaged the exterior of the garage, crushed a car that was in the driveway. luckily, though, totally missed any of the interior living spaces where the family was inside. we heard from the family. they say they're devastated by the damage. but they're glad they're alive. >> its 7.37. right now, we want to take a live look at sfo. you can see the runway as wet their and their dose delays our mountain while

. >> much of the bay area got a break from the rain friday but not kernville work poured off and on throughout the day. >> the russian river didn't look all that menacing friday, but it's expected to get above flood stage early next week. seems to be more frequent the last 10 years or so. which is unfortunate and locals have seen it all before and are in fact concerned. we're going to hunker down. stay. we're on high kind of high ground. so. we've been through it before, but they are getting prepared. >> we need better because we're out of electricity. and pga need just called and said they estimate will be back in power. 10 o'clock sunday. >> at the 5 and dime, they're stocking up on other items are number one right now is candy candles and just because of our obvious power of power outages. and when you're going through stressful times, people need can be so close on a lot of candy and candles. >> when the storms come along, the russian river, there are various concerns. one is that your home will be flooded. but the other is the roads will be flooded. so you can't leave your home. one of th

kron four's gayle ong reports from kernville. >> it was a cloudy but mostly dry sunday in greenville. but a series of storms flooded the entrance of johnson's beach and the cozy cove pat to the russian river. usually it's just a beach for people to come and hang out and yeah, now words seen it full of water. every ferguson lives nearby. her neighborhood is under an evacuation warning. this point. it's just a warning back. ready to. yeah. oh, ferguson experience. major flooding when the rising water crested right below the second floor of her home in 2019. well, she doesn't have any plans to leave her home yet. she is prepared to just making sure anything on the bottom unit is moved up so that if it does flood, we don't use as much as we lost last time and then just making sure we have enough food and water so that we don't have to worry about trying to get out. neighbors who live in a vacation beach neighborhood near the russian river say they've learned the importance of being prepared from past floods. the pj could not get to us to fix the power pole because of the flooded road. >>