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. -- valeo. this would normally take 20 minutes. this is taking 30 minutes or so, on the bridge another 25, we're looking at the better part of an hour to get into san francisco. we've had a lot of crashes, pleasanton has a tree down on personel road. the road of advice is to plan on extra time whenever you're going. let's go back to the studio. >>> the rain is not leaving until the weekend is over. mike one in marin county where people have been stocking up all day long. >> righter in in sausalito i wouldn't say it's the rain in the way it's the wind has picked up. the bay area braces for one of the wettest weekends in the past year. the sound of winter pouring into the bay. pouring out of good man's lumber in mill valley. flashlights, batteries, tarps and sandbags. within seconds, shovels were scraping residents on the move. >> i'm going home. anything to that gets through that. >> she's at work. >> this is rags that people put down their toilet. >> they they are prepping for the storm. ragging the bar screens. >> they don't decom