here is kcra's orco manna in placerville, where drivers are being asked to stay patient or stay home.reporter: they put chains on their tires bracing for the rest of their journey on highway 50. >> so it's been, um, it's been a bit of a wreck trying to get up here. >> reporter: highway 50 re-opening to drivers late-monday night but traffic at a near standstill because of the road conditions. >> we were kind of expecting to -- to be stuck for a while. so i think for us, you know, taking it with a grain of salt, it's not too bad. >> reporter: this is call tran's video where cars are seen backed up for miles. snow plows still hard at work >> we ever been out here since about 12:30. we weren't expecting the usual three and a half hour route but this is definitely a little more than we signed up for. >> reporter: despite highway 50 being back open, california highway patrol is urging drivers to reconsider their travel plans. >> people on the side of the road stuck and -- and not going anywhere. >> reporter: that's what chet and his wife saw while trying to travel to lake tahoe. this is the

. >> brittany hope continues our coverage from placerville. >> those not able to leave public pines arecoming here. the shell gas station, gathering supplies for a night without power in below-freezing temperatures. a vital tool for warmth is propane. >> we walked down here. >> walking through feet and ice for ten or 15 minutes with a tan income tow. >> i strapped it down to each binding and it's sturdy, and i tightened it and walked down here. >> luckily a man in line is driving them back. many heading to their homes that look like this. his home has been stuck without power behind this wall of snow. on the outside he's taking matters into his own hands with his snow blower, and on the inside -- >> i have a generator blowing. >> many are parked in this dark safeway parking lot. many others are spending the night back at shell. >> this is my down sleeping back. >> 28 hours in your van here? >> yeah. >> trucks trying to leave, having issues getting even out of the driveway and on to the road. >> he was stuck for a while. the top of the driveway, all the snow turns to ice. he needed help.

chain control also in effect as you lead to placerville area. three miles east of placerville where you will be pulled over and asked if you have chains or four wheel drive. the road is closed from meyers to the summit after you pass this location. that's because of avalanche control that they are doing up there. as i made my way up here early this morning there is more issues, heavy snow, helped topple a tree it. fell down across the westbound lanes of united states 50, also took out power lines which meant power was out in the area but some people that were stranded happened to have chainsaws. they hopped out and cleared that tree out of the roadway. actually one truck went under and then they tied the tree to the truck and then the truck kind of pulled it and then they got the chainsaws out and they talked to us a little about that process. >> a lot of us carry chainsaws in our truck for this reason in the winter season. we are always -- you have to be prepared in the snow. if was dark, it was snow on the roadways and the good news is that no

this is placerville. 50 miles east of sacramento on highway 50. the owner says, it's a good thing the power was out because it took down some lines on the way down. that would be a fire danger. 12,000 out annals in placerville tonight. pg&e reported 69,000 outages for the sierra. the snow is causing a lot of problems now, in the long run it's going to help us a lot in term of our drought. and tonight we are joined by dr. andrew short, a meteorologist and lead scientist at berkeley central sierra snow lab at donner pass. how are you holding up? are you snowed in up there? >> yes, it's quite snowy up here indeed. took 40 minutes to watch 50 yards to do the measurements so to say it's rough getting around is an understatement. >> that means a lot of snow if it took you that long to walk just to get the measurement. and you measured the snowiest december on recording right? more than 15 feet so far, that shattered a record for december? >> that is correct. the previous record was held in 1970, and it was 179 inches. and today we're up to 194 inches at

when you beginning beginning you're right in placerville, erin heft.police are asking for the public's help to find a man wanted in connection with a carjacking and armed robbery officers responded to a report of an armed carjacking in the area of plaza drive and admiral callaghan lane just before eight o'clock yesterday morning, investigators say, he pointed a gun at a person forced the victim to drive through the city, then rob the person before taking off in their car. police say the suspect is known to frequent vallejo, oakland and berkeley. he may be driving in one of these cards, a silver 2021 nissan maxima with the nevada license plate 330 p 16, or a ford fusion with the california license plate 80, d r 917. call 911 immediately if you see him. and it's the season of giving coming up. see how volunteers in san mateo meet that clear today and on the same night that matrix insurrections premieres in san francisco will show you how the movie is helping hype up a new video game technology. at a very weather to get a break from the rain this weekend,

it is about 80 miles of closed freeways. 50 is closed just east of placerville to meyers about 20 minutes south of south lake tahoe. >> not just the sierra. the temperature is cold enough to turn rain into snow on top of some of our bay area mountains. check out this time lapse of the wintery conditions on mount hamilton today todd and the rain isn't over, yet. a live look outside. be careful out there. the roads are slick. >> yeah let's check in with meteorologist rob mayeda and, rob, there is a lot to would watch. >> and we are going to be watching the rain overnight tonight that will have a high impact we think on your monday-morning commute. and after the storm moves out, snow levels which are already low are going to drop even lower and we will have to talk about those high temperatures which will make you think we've teleported the bay area to the sierra. coming up by tuesday. right now, our storm ranger shows you the heaviest rain on the west slope of the santa cruz mountains. scattered showers and still some snow showers closer to mount hamilton but really things are going to pick

marley gartner is in placerville >> reporter: bell in hand, apron on, dan plants his feet next to theery much. >> reporter: friday morning, no belt could be heard. after someone stole the cattle's the stands and the bells and aprons at walmart of missouri flat road in placerville. >> i cannot picture the mindset of someone doing that. cold-blooded stuff. i could not look myself in the mirror i did such a thing. >> that's messed up. not a lot of people can afford stuff during the holiday season. it's sad. >> reporter: 10% of their holiday goal gone in an instant . volunteers collect the $1000 a day at this location, they were not able to collect and that's not all a lost. >> how much do you think the red kettles can cost? >> maybe five dollars. >> that cost them $500 in equipment. >> the cattle itself? >> i don't know. >> it will cost them $500 to replace. >> what these say to them? that's like stealing candy from a baby. >> i am christian and i late give regularly. >> heart broken. sad commentary. someone is that desperate. >> get a job. because you need to help yourself, give us a ca

eric: a 32-year-old mother from placerville is sharing her story of how covid nearly took her life and that of her unborn baby. sarah hile decided not to get vaccinated during her pregnancy, forcing her to have emergency c-section after she contracted the virus. our reporter has her story. fortune reporter: fortunately, the story has a happy outcome. >> she is now a little over 10 pounds, which is amazing. when she was born sean was born she was only five pounds. reporter: they had to be separated because she was fighting pneumonia after contracting covid. >> because i was positive, i didn't get to meet naomi until 10 days after she was born. reporter: after her birth, doctors were focused on saving mom's life. >> i couldn't breathe, it was the scariest situation i've ever been in in my life. i remember looking at the doctor and said please help me. i was so scared. reporter: refusing to get vaccinated was a hard decision. she was already pregnant when the new vaccines became available, and because she had suffered two previous miscarriages, sarah and her husband matt decided he would

. >> in placerville power has been out since monday. pg&e warns it may take several days to restore. >>> the jury in the trial of elizabeth holmes now on a break following six full days of deliberations without a verdict. longtime court watchers tell us they're not surprised by how long this decision is taking. they say it's important to remember how much evidence was presented during the 3 1/2 month long trial and that holmes herself took the stand, and that's why there are two sides competing in the jury deliberation room. >> you have to go through thousands of emails, thousands of documents and they can all be interpreted different ways. i think that's what's going on in there. when you have people fighting for ms. holmes saying that's not what this evidence shows. it shows she wasn't lying. it was showing it was a misjudgment or a mistake, it didn't rise to the level of a crime. >> the jury is now done until next year, though that's quite soon from now. they'll resume deliberations on monday. we'll send out an alert the moment we kn

may see the snow go down as low as placerville, 67 inches at kirk wood. south lake tahoe, 46. >> i don't like driving in the snow. you can download the app. it's got a lot of information on there. really helps you know when the rain is hitting your neighborhood so you can make the dash out if you need to, or p you're trying to get to tahoe. you might want to check in with the snow whisperer. coming up in the second half of the show we will talk tahoe, and what you can expect. >>> let's switch gears and talk omicron and how our leaders are responding to this very contagious variant. governor newsom was in oakland where he announced that boosters are going to be required for all hey, workers. the safe act is going to be sending at-home testing kits so they can be tested before they return to school after the winter break. >> we want to make sure they come back in as good as shape as they left. we want to make sure we are testing our kids and preparing them to come back in-person instruction. >> why are health leaders pushing boosters so hard? this is why. c

a placerville painary, "the mountain democrat" spoke to an attorney hired for the pair back in august after their homes and phones were searched. he says his clients are 100% innocent and no evidence to prove they started the fire. the smiths are being held in the eldorado county jail with bail set at $1 million each. the cal fire burned more than 220,000 acres. >>> a followup. the police chief has accepted the apology of the restaurant that refused to serve three cops. the staff at hilda and jesse asked the officers to leave because they felt uncomfortable because of the presence of their weapons. it led to backlash. on sunday, the owners apologized, calling it a mistake. today chief bill scott tweeted that he's accepted their apology on behalf of the sfpd. he added that all officers deserve public support. >>> be on the lookout. police in mountain view say a man stocked a young girl on her way to school. these are the photos detectives want you to see. they say the man grabbed the girl inappropriately and told her to come her his apartment. that happened near a park and the girl was

they are going door to door making sure people are okay inside their homes in placerville.f people were without power. and governor mu some declared a state of emergency for that area because of all the recent storms. not all the news coming out of the sierra is bad. all the recent snow has been great for our snowpack. the state held its first snow survey earlier today. it shows snowpack all across the state well above average so far this season. >> even with the wet start, we still have two-thirds of our wettest months still ahead of us in january and february. a wet start doesn't always mean that this year will be wet once it's all said and done. >> despite all the recent snow and rain, california is still in a drought. but check this out. we are making improvements. on the left, what drought conditions were a week ago. the deeper the red the more severe the drought. take a look at the map on the right, that's what drought conditions are today, improvements all across california. we wanted to know, with all this snow, will it help long term? earlier today i spoke to an ex

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the highway reopened last night after was close from placerville to myers. right now highway 50 is the only way out for drivers because interstate 880 is still shut down. >> the highway is at capacity. i cannot handle all of the people that are trying to get to and from lake tahoe. we recommend that you just stay home. >>> thousands of pg&e customers are without power to to the winter storms in the sierras. over 60,000 customers are affected. some have been without power for 2 days. a lot of downed trees took out power lines, and blizzard conditions have hampered efforts to restore power. >>> a live look at san francisco, were moments ago, officials announced the city will be canceling its new year's eve fireworks show due to the surge of covid-19 cases. also, new rules and warnings from health officials as cases in california skyrocket. the state has become the first in the nation to record more than 5 million known covid infections. the states positivity rate quadrupled in the past 2 weeks. the state health department's first post christmas update finds th

a placerville painary, "the mountain democrat" spoke to an attorney hired for the pair back in augustnes were searched. he says his clients are 100% innocent and no evidence to prove they started the fire. the smiths are being held in the eldorado county jail with bail set at $1 million each. the cal fire burned more than 220,000 acres. >>> a followup. the police chief has accepted the apology of the restaurant that refused to serve three cops. the staff at hilda and jesse asked the officers to leave because they felt uncomfortable because of the presence of their weapons. it led to backlash. on sunday, the owners apologized, calling it a

down to placerville and auburn. good news in case you missed it in week, the sierra snow pack thanks to the seven feet of snow we saw this week, is now 98% of average, and the numbers might double in another week. so there you go. rain totals also looking good. as you see, we're back in the surplus around the bay area. and we've got a seattle seven-day forecast on the way. look at san francisco -- you got rain off and on at times. i think the peak of the rain is going to be tuesday through thursday. that could be locally heavy at times as you see there. and cooling temperatures heading toward next weekend which means i would not rule out mt. hamilton or some of the higher peaks in the bay area. possibly getting snow on christmas day. >> wow. >> that is an exciting forecast. >> that's exactly what people who have been dreaming of a white christmas, like the ones that used to know -- >> snow levels close to 4,000 feet. >> fingers crossed. >> fantastic. thank you. >>> he's got the hopes of the olympic ice skating team

reporting from placerville from the el dorado county courthouse, stephanie lynn. the father and son are being held in lieu of $1 million bond each. a dangerous software flaw keeps cybersecurity experts across the globe working tonight coming up why it will take days to get a full grasp of how many people are impacted by this and the bay area. man gets hit with an indictment over january's riot indictment over january's riot at the u. s. c [laughing and talking] at kaiser permanente, your entire care team is connected, so even a routine appointment can save your life. and i see you're due for a mammogram. should we schedule it? a leader in the prevention, early detection and treatment of cancer. racing to fix a dangerous software flaw. the critical flaw is in an open source utility widely used by government industry in the government and industry. cybersecurity experts say it's already being exploited and the fallout won't be known for several days. users of the online game minecraft have reportedly exploited the fault the flaw to reach other users by pasting a sho

highway 50 is back open but chains are required from placerville to myers. we could see the roads covered once again. drew, how much snow are we talking about? drew: an additional 1-2 feet of snow over the next 48 hours. you can see all shaded in pink, 9-14 inches of snow. don't try tahoe tomorrow, over the week and we have calm conditions and dry. temperatures chilly, single digits in the nighttime. back here at home we are in the 40's, 45 right now, 48 in oakland. we are tracking more wet weather on the way tomorrow. a brighter, drier new year's eve in the full forecast in a few minutes. dan: parts of the bay the bay some winter white today. this was taken at about 800 feet in fountain grove. it wasn't quite enough to stick to the ground but it was fun to see anyway. mount diablo also got some snow today. take a look at this time lapse video from the camera at the peak. in the southin the southin the h find snow poster home, hamilton is usually the place to be. it was empty today as a road closure blocked the way for most people. our intrepid reporter brin

you can see blue canyon placerville kirkwood right now south lake tahoe even seeing snow.ow level is right around 2,000 feet right now and we'll see several more hours of snow in the sierra winter storm warning is in effect until tuesday morning. so we have about a day more of snow to see about two to three feet of additional snow coming their way all areas shaded in pink back here at home 30s and 40s later on tonight as we track those course continuing to move through likely a dusting of snow on our highest peaks like mount hamilton and mount tam tomorrow scattered showers in the morning a few peaks of sunshine in the afternoon. otherwise, it's a cold day temperatures mainly in the 50s accuweather. 7-day forecast will show you we'll get a break in the wet weather tuesday morning tuesday night into wednesday morning another store moves in here temperatures only in the 40s again will dry out by thursday will end the year with a lot of sunshine and then jair by sunday will track more rain coming. well, thank you so much. i like what you said. are temporary break monday after

ama: a 32-year-old mother from placerville is sharing her story of how covid nearly took her life andnow a little over 10 pounds, which is amazing because when she was born, she was only four pounds. reporter: the baby was born prematurely. they had to be separated because she was fighting pneumonia after contracting covid. >> something that will stick with me is that because i was positive, i didn't get to meet naomi until 10 days after she was born. reporter: after naomi's birth, doctors were focused on saving moms life. >> i couldn't breathe. it was the scariest situation i have ever been in in my life. and i remember looking at the doctor and i said, please help me. because i was so scared. reporter: refusing to get vaccinated was a hard decision. she was already pregnant when the new vaccines became available. and because she had suffered two previous miscarriages, sarah and her husband, matt, decided he would get vaccinated, but she would not. >> we felt like her being secluded, kind of from the outside world during the pregnancy, was hopefully enough for her not to need the vac

we can of overshot our committee and staffing placerville and back half of that. that would be okay. but don't do the washington thing where you quietly at into a line item that nobody sees, the committee staffing and funding and not fess up to overshooting. so as an objection was offered all these amendments to the appropriations bill i i 100 ad we're trying to basically pull a filibuster knaus which you can't ball but we are attempting to do our best shot at it. it was goofy things like all designed to say we ought to be what we are about. again i particularly praise someone like tom coburn force consistency on that fronts. >> host: may he rest in peace. he was certainly strongly principled and ensure he drove the leadership crazy. he was -- speaking of the filibuster, i noticed in your book you make some references there. at various points. i forgot exactly where but in the book i would be curious your thoughts. we were both house guys. my perspective and you tell me yours. i thought, i thought the senate filibuster was the last remaining mechanism in washingto

in placerville. the weight of some of that wet heavy snow brought down trees and power lines, making roads across the region impassable. caltrans reports that interstate 80 and highway 50 are open right now, but anyone driving through must have four wheel drive. or drivers must install chains. the chp is still asking people to avoid traveling to the sierra at all. if they can governor newsom encouraged californians to do the same and avoid tahoe. in a statement, he said, quote i want to thank all our emergency responders for working diligently through trying whether conditions to keep our communities safe. i all califoro avoid making the situation worse and refrain from traveling on mountain roads until conditions improve. the governor directed the office of emergency services to monitor the road and weather conditions and help coordinate assistance. we spoke with the mayor of south lake tahoe and mornings on to the ninth today about conditions in that area and efforts to bounce back from this storm.

when you beginning beginning you're right in placerville, erin heft.he last came out in california is now closed for good. the last surviving kmart closed in grass valley northeast of sacramento. customers this past weekend were graded with massive sales and lots of empty shelves. at one point, kmart had 2400 stores nationwide. that number continued to shrink since the company filed for bankruptcy in 2000 to yesterday's closing in grass valley was an emotional day for some longtime customers. i can that's just really sad. wow maybe for christmas. they're gonna. wow memories. yeah my mom and all of us go christmas shopping here and yeah, it's just my memories. the 122 year old company now has fewer than 20 stores still open. still to come at noon, more cases of the omicron variant being reported here in the bay area. what health experts are saying about a possible new surge after the holidays plus. we're learning more about how effective vaccine booster shots will be against the law. macron variant. i'm jonathan, syrian atlanta, i'll jonathan, syrian at

colorful ornate hand stitched quilts are being collected at a shop in placerville and given to thoses in the fire. families are being invited to come and pick up their favorite quilt. we've had a few quotes from great grandparents and grandma's and they all got lost in the fire. we didn't know for a couple days of our house made it or not, but yeah, we lost everything. i'm really, really. overtaken by these women and just the community. the support. organizers of this quilt projects say people from everywhere knew of the devastation caused by the kaldor fire and the blankets have been coming in from those nearby and around the country. whoa! holy never. window just shattered. northern california was shaken today by that big earthquake up in humboldt county in fortuna emergency responders at this point have no word the usgs is s was a 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of humboldt county at 12 10 pm this afternoon, people reported feeling it as far south as san francisco and as far north as medford, oregon. officials say there was some minor damage to buildings includi