. >> still ahead here tonight a central valley city got flooded out last time it rained how they're gearing up for the big storm coming. >> that will bring a big risk of power outages i'll show you the time line in just a moment. >> and a woman goes into labor and doesn't call for help. >> a couple sends a swiss watch >> a couple sends a swiss watch to a shop and it winds up

mill valley city manager and vice mayor among those who came to check it out. confident the bank would hold. >> we put out a lot of preparation for this several days in advance. warned everyone and told twhaem to look for and i think we are spared the brunt of the storm. >> her home back up to the creek. she and her husband have lived hear for more than 30 years and have experienced worse than this. >> the street has been under water before at the other end. you can take a boat out but not today. today we have been lucky. >> they are not counting on luck. they put sand bag around the garage just in case two teenager boy decided to go raf rafting. certainly a dangerous idea since there's no way to know what is in or under that water. city. back live to the massive oak tree that is down. fir department is on scene but really nothing that can be done tonight. homeowner tells me he will get his tree guys out here tomorrow, a giant crane to it off the roof and remove it. most damp is outside but a little bit on the inside of the sec story. the owner has classic car

mill valley city manager and vice mayor among those who came to check it out. confident the bank would hold. >> we put out a lot of preparation for this several days in advance. warned everyone and told twhaem to look for and i think we are spared the brunt of the storm. >> her home back up to the creek. she and her husband have lived hear for more than 30 years and have experienced worse than this. >> the street has been under water before at the other end. you can take a boat out but not today. today we have been lucky. >> they are not counting on luck. they put sand bag around the garage just in case two teenager boy decided to go raf rafting. certainly a dangerous idea since there's no way to know what is in or under that water. city. back live to the massive oak tree that is down. fir department is on scene but really nothing that can be done tonight. homeowner tells me he will get his tree guys out here tomorrow, a giant crane to it off the roof and remove it. most damp is outside but a little bit on the inside of the sec story. the owner has classic car

. >> still ahead here tonight a central valley city got flooded out last time it rained how they're gearing up for the big storm coming. >> that will bring a big risk of power outages i'll show you the time line in just a moment. >> and a woman goes into labor and doesn't call for help. >> a couple sends a swiss watch to a shop and it winds up going to >> bay area will not be the only city in the storm. a major down pour pour in placer county last week was a dress rehearsal and people were picking up sandbags and trying to get ready. >> this is a city corporation yard. there has been a steady line of people. and people seem concerned about what is still to come this week. parts of placer county collected up to three inches of rain. that is why places that got wet a week ago will almost certainly face trouble. an 86-year-old woman just closed escrow when it flooded. >> we met the contractor about an hour earlier. over there, a group from a homeless shelter was doing the same thing. >> redoing piping and stuff to make it it doesn't happen again. >> wednesday, flash flooding at the gathering i

mill valley city manager and vice mayor among those who came to check it out.fident the bank would hold. >> we put out a lot of preparation for this several days in advance. warned everyone and told twhaem to look for and i think we are spared the brunt of the storm. >> her home back up to the creek. she and her husband have lived hear for more than 30 years and have experienced worse than this. >> the street has been under water before at the other end. you can take a boat out but not today. today we have been lucky. >> they are not counting on luck. they put sand bag around the garage just in case two teenager boy decided to go raf rafting. certainly a dangerous idea since there's no way to know what is in or under that water. city. back live to the massive oak tree that is down. fir department is on scene but really nothing that can be done tonight. homeowner tells me he will get his tree guys out here tomorrow, a giant crane to it off the roof and remove it. most damp is outside but a little bit on the inside of the sec story. the owner has classic car in t

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mill valley city officials are trying to get the attention of drivers as they have posted signs tellingto propose for the storm. back here i can tell you this is what we are seeing: i want you to look at the streetlight because it gives you an idea of whether we have been dealing with, the rain has not stop and it continues to fall, it will come down and we are monitoring the trouble spots. if you see something let us know. then we can get the video of it and let others know about it. i will have the latest at o'clock a.m. >> from the north bay to the east bay this is walnut creek camera looking at interstate 680. you can see traffic is very slow with a last brake lights and hopefully everyone is safe this morning and keeping a safe distance as the roads are slippery. >> the bay bridge toll plaza shows the backup is there with ponding that usually happens headed to the fast track lane is be careful there. you will splash other cars if you drive too fast. some folks are filling the sand bags in the santa cruz mountains with several inches of rain in the forecast. this area often sees mud

earlier today i talked with the mill valley city manager and vice mayor. they said that thanks to all the preparation and all the warning that they had because of the form they felt confident people in the area were well prepared and got less rain than they thought they would so again the neighborhood looks like it's going to escape this one but they all have vivid memory of storm in the 80's which they say was much worse than this. 7 news. >> thanks very much. >> this picture was taken earlier today as spencer mentioned flood stages 32 feet. it's expected to swell to almost 35 feet at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> in san jose the roof of safeway collapsed late this afternoon. here's of of chris winn. >> we can tell you this eights partial rough collapse that happened just before 4:00 p.m. here at the safeway off capitol expressway near silver creek valley in east san jose. crew believe all employee and customers have been accounted for. we have been told at least one person injured the leg during the ordeal but other than that firefighters are certainly relieve

of rain in the redwood city creek about to happen in in mill valley. in some and paul alto.er an inch of rain in a number of places over an inch of rain in mountain view and san jose. and as f o with half an inch of rain. asked after all. --sfo >> jacqueline: we do have a little bit of a low right now. seen some showers to the oakland and in richmond plus san rafael. down in the south bay few light showers in san jose in their loss gatos. we will see more as we head into tomorrow morning. the majority of this first wave will push from the north to east. the core of the storm is still off shore and it will impact this tomorrow into the morning our spirit would not be that as it would not be as bad as today. we will take a look at that and the rainfall total coming up and just a little bit. >> catherine: in the east bay. p-g and e crews are hard at work after the storm knocked out power to thousands of homes. at one point - roughly 18- thousand homes were in the >> catherine: kron 4's haaziq madyun shows us the work underway to get the lights back on. >> reporter: a dangerous

this sister building of this true community interit has been is an anchor within our city and the visitacion valley center for well over 95 years and supervisor you said one hundred years this has been a place for residents this place is a place for parents to come to seek support services for their children to learn how to support their babies a as they develop e develop a place for youth for mentor and place for seniors for nutritious meals for opportunity to congregate and socialize to bring meaning to their lives i'm proud to be standing here with the city community and our community balances partners to revitalize this center and bring that back to its full glory of what was was before i'm proud and committed as folks to bring the services back here to insure that our young people whether they're coming from school back into they're community there's a safe place to come to if they want that first opportunity for career development come here for the skills tests apartment that need support for after-school program and services they can come here and receive the support i'm really proud the lea

it's in the mid-40s throughout the tri-valley through the city of san francisco. out the door you need your jackets and sunglasses. you will notice this afternoon winds increase and then the coldest temperatures we will experience so far this season will occur on new year's eve and all the way through new year's morning. we have a cold storm in the bay area now. we have a high wind advisory in effect for today through wednesday high noon and this could cause some downed power lines, trees and difficulty driving especially over our local bridges. it will continue to be sunny albeit chilly today. we'll have those winds increasing up to 45 miles per hour. occasionally stronger gusts. we'll walk you through this. this is what you can anticipate. at lunch hour today 36-mile-per- hour winds in concord. 22 ben lomond. 38 in san rafael through vallejo and those winds continue to increase during the evening commute. and as they do so, you couple up the winds with the temperatures today that are only going to top off between 50 and 55 degrees, windy throughout the central v

mill valley, sfo, redwood city and san francisco and there is a lot more to go. >>> good morning. we are talking about the storm preparations. steve says we will get another 1-2 inches of rain. driving conditions pretty horrendous. >> sometimes just be careful what you wish for. we've been wishing for rain. we'll talk about amounts and how long this will last. >> if the storm is causing new threats in the areas burned by a major wild fire near the sierra, we'll tell you the two things crews have done to prevent mud slides. >> and it's a national day of giving back. the best way you can donate to bay area charities on this giving tuesday. it's all ahead on ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> good morning. we are facing the rain in san francisco and now we are in san leandro where you can see there is a live picture coming down pretty hard. alex savidge is out there this morning. he's going to have more on the road conditions. we are checking the road conditions all over the bay area. it is

several drivers even a fire truck got stuck at the marin city off ramp. mill valley and tiburon city officials have ordered all off duty public work employees into work to deal with these issues. ktvu news contacted a number of home repair businesses in the bay area. they say they are swamped with calls since the big storms began. they say that the trouble for homeowners often begins in the street. >> if the gutters and down spouts can't get water away from the house, you have water coming into the house. >> water leaks can of course destroy homes from inside the walls if it starts dripping in there. the best time to fix the leaks is right now. the start of the rainy season. >> that is for sure. >>> time is 6:07. we have new numbers about bay area power outages caused by the stormy weather. the biggest problem is in san francisco. 2600 homes and businesses have no power. 2200 without power on the peninsula. only a few dozen pg&e customers still without power in the south bay and north bay. and no reported outages in the east bay. southern california is also getting a

let's bring in our traffic reporter, mike, not just schools but businesses in the silicon valley and the city urging employees to stay home and we can see the difference. >> we can. our microclimate weather team warned folks about the conditions so folks were planning to work from home in many cases. fremont traffic is picking up. the evening commute very light compared to what we typically see out of milpitas and fremont. the wind calmer than when i was covering it this morning and the flag was perpendicular. another live look shows you san jose, a lighter flow here as well. your maps, no major incidents as far as crashes going on. we have slowing south 101 at 87th. flooding reported in the roadway. 87 through mountain view. the latest report comes in 101 southbound at wood side. just where jeff was talking about. that rain coming through at a furious pace. 2 inches per hour in spots through los altos as well. the bay bridge, no real problems. the flooding on ashby avenue where christie showed us that car underwater. >> a great way to stay on top of all this is with your phone and our app. n

passengers landed this morning in the city of valley. finally, they were on firm ground. among the survivors are british horse trainer nick williams and his fiancee. they lost each other during the rescue. this is how bad it got. his face is covered in smoke and set. -- and soot. how to the fire breakout on the card deck and why did it spread to kill several of its passengers? >> my thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims, but the work of the rescue services prevented what could have been a great disaster people stop their dedication and tenacity stop us from becoming much worse. -- from becoming a great disaster. their dedication and tenacity stopped this from becoming much worse. >> james arnold reporting there. one of the survivors has been speaking to james. he described the atmosphere on board before. >> at 5:00 in the morning, there was a small alarm. we couldn't imagine he could be too much. we came out and there were clouds of smoke. >> what did you think was going on? >> it was very clear. >> were people panicking? >> yes among and basically th

but west over toward campbell, los gatos, portola valley, redwood city, no rain.s the dividing line right now splitting the south bay in half. it has been another wet evening out there. it's sliding off to the east. i think by about 7:30 tonight we'll be left once again with just scattered showers. winter weather advisory continues in the high terrain of the sierra above 4,000 feet. it is still snowing an additional 2 to 4" of snowfall likely tonight. travel with caution. we have football games coming up this weekend and the weather will be better drier. we have the 9ers hosting the chargers right here on kpix 5 saturday evening, partly cloudy, 58 degrees. up the road we have the raiders taking on the buffalo bills. their last home game of the year. we hope not the last one in oakland. sunday 1:25, mostly sunny skies. and 63 degrees. so obviously the weather pattern has to be changing. we're talking about sunshine. we have seen rain about 13 of 17 days so far this month. this rain today is different. it's not coming up from the south. we are not seeing a tropical

"san jose mercury news" reports a federal agency is looking into evergreen valley and san jose city collegesoup of faculty whistle-blowers say the schools don't have enough police, don't send alerts about incidents, and don't encourage victims to report attacks. school leaders say the colleges comply with federal law. dozens of colleges across the country are under similar investigations. >>> chevron doing damage control. thousands of people were alarmed when they saw that massive flame at the richmond refinery plant. chevron says it was normal procedure, what they call flaring. the release of gas burned as it's released. they say last night's flare was part of a regular process to shut down part of the factory and the white smoke is actually steam. however, flames could be seen all the way from the bay bridge, raising fears of another refinery fire like the one we saw there at chevron in 2012. >>> a serious health warning about prepackaged caramel apples. illnesses and as many as five deaths are reported in california and nine other states. cdc hasn't identified the specific brands involved

silicon valley, almost like a tale of two cities. >> reporter: jennifer loving runs destination home, an ambitious plan to build 6,000 affordable units in the valley. for it to work, loving says, tech companies need to step up and apply some silicon valley ingenuity to this problem. >> what we don't have is somebody from our private sector community saying let's invest in creating a lot of units and we'll help you, whether it's design, innovation, money. we solve harder problems than this in this valley all the time, but for some reason this hasn't been a problem that we've been able to solve. >> reporter: exacerbating the situation, the elimination of state redevelopment funds in 2011. >> with the distribution of redevelopment, we lost millions of dollars that we used to fund the development of affordable housing throughout the community. the dollars are gone. >> reporter: to help bridge the gap, san joseeÉ's city counl last month passed a fee requiring developers to contribute funds to affording housing but the revenue likely won't kick in for another five years. for silicon valley'

to fisherman's wharf provide a connection of the neighborhoods on the earn side of the city from visitacion valley to fisherman's wharf it provides respective applicants to fisherman's wharf hotel rooms to the moscone center and provides capacity to transit demand and ultimately reduce the traffic congestion and trithsz to a more sustainable liveable city we support the outlines of the data and finding into the various transportation studies as mention in the presentation and recommend that the city may be planning of the real estate investigate the opportunity to obtain efforts ever access to central locations before they go to cite released back to the owner and late in addition to the ct a programs committee we recommend this presentation be shared with the full sfmta board thank you. >> (calling names) and good afternoon. i'm pat valentine i'm part of the advocacy group called next stop advocating for the fisherman's wharf and most of the vice president i'm that over for the presentation this is not only a great extension to get people to fisherman's wharf and north beach but to bring people d

it's 46 outside in the city, 32 though in the poconos, 40 in allentown, the lehigh valley, sea isle cityr 40's from beach haven down to the boardwalk and even on westward into areas in millville. satellite 6 along with action radar, clear and quiet skies across much of new england. clouds breaking up across our area. we'll widen out the picture. we're tracking an area of low pressure, the center of that storm system moving across northern sections of missouri also southern iowa and we have this trailing cold front. before the moisture arrives we're tapping into a warm front so tomorrow temperatures will be slightly above average but we are also tracking that precipitation. so future tracker 6 showing you 1 o'clock in the afternoon it is mostly cloudy once again and we are tracking those showers from a west-east direction so some light precipitation really breaking out for berks county close to reading also lancaster county and across kent and new castle counties in delaware. as we go into 7 o'clock tuesday you can see we still have light showers around. not a whole lot of precipitation w

two shy of average down to 34 in the city and norm and west in poconos, 34. allentown and lehigh valley and 32 in sea isle city one degree below freezing mark. you factor in wind chill northerly wind in philadelphia and does feel like wind chill of 28 in city and teens north and west of poconos feels like 27 trenton and lower 20 current wind khildz in beach haven. he's satellite 6 and action radar dry and chilly across the mid-atlantic region. high pressure over the great lakes and drifting further and further east. we have calm conditions and def in thely cooler. touch cooler than average. good news with the ridge of high pressure north it helps to suppress the moisture you see across the southern states well away from the region for the rest of tonight and as we head to the weekend. here's setup for us on saturday. high pressure snaiz control. cold, calm, pots et cetera of sunshine. high temperature of 3. as we get to sunday high scoots east. partly sunny and lights wind overhead and high temperature of 42. we'll fast forward and showing you the setup as we get into the day on sunday.

the winter daly city, 1.30. mill valley, 1.10. i bet there's more than that.kevin leavey with the information. 1.15. cazadero, when it rains in the north bay, they are usually the front-runner. heavier rain is on the way. vallejo and benicia had heavy rain. antioch finally. east bay concord, livermore getting in on the rain. they missed out on the weekend. but antioch .723. san francisco 1.0 a. there might be a few more to this. 84/100ths at blossom hill. not a lot of heavy rain. the heavier rain was in the yellow and orange. that was this morning. it's let up. i know there's not been a lot for some of you. it's on its way. there's a lot of green here. it's a foggy, steady rain. concord, claytop, baypoint, antioch has moved off to the east. that will let up a little bit. south san francisco, peninsula, still some rain but nothing that heavy. the heaviest is around gilroy down to hollister, watson ville, santa cruz. that seems to be the heaviest band. we're getting a little bit of a break now. don't be surprised if we get rain off and on all the way into friday

would be i think really exciting if san francisco could brand itself as in visitacion valley i've seen in other cities unusually something that a plaque in front building or a poster or a website there's an opportunity to use technology skills of the city and some of the city businesses to make it more forward-looking in terms of the visibletion and mapping the city there are a number of initiative that are happening in preservation in the u.s. now to try to map important events and entities and using that for the legacy businesses could bring more foot traffic and endorse that image as part of the that effect arrest the third piece that is really what the initiative was built for is the ready to proceed what the legislation aimed to do to have businesses that were threatened with closer or because their rents are being tripled or they're having trouble to sell the business n and support them to continue this is the part that costs money that is why i recommend this having an upper level but businesses that are requiring nor help and need nor support from one to 3 support we've discussed that with mod

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corridor temperatures are lower 50s. 50 wilmington. 51 trenton, 48 allentown and lehigh valley and 49 sea isle city 30s in the poconos. here's satellite 6 and action radar lots of clouds around. tracking a frontal boundary that's moving on through. because of that still light activity for philadelphia and areas south. another wave of energy a little ripple will try to ride up along this front as we get into the overnight hours and first thing monday morning i think most of us will stay dry. things clear out the rest of tonight. here's setup for us back to work monday and cold front moves offshore and this front relieves area monday. high temperatures in philadelphia 47. that's nice for late december. keep in mind average for us this time of year is 42. as we get to tuesday, wednesday and thursday as we usher in beginning of new year it gets colder. you have high pressure over the northern plains and great lakes this will work its way east ward. you into those north weshlly winds tuesday and jopd and temperatures going to be stuck in the 30s. well below average. average this time of year is 4 2. we'

the extension provides a complete extension of neighborhoods on the eastern side of the city from visitation valley to the fisherman's wharf and the access of prospective job applicants to jobs. the hotels room to the center to provide the capacity to meet the demand and ultimately reduces traffic con jeks and improving the pedestrian, and bike safety to transition into a more sustain able livable city. we support the next steps outlined to incorporate the datings and findings in the various places mixed in the presentation and last, berecommend that the city may be planning or the real estate department investigate the opportunity to obtain the rights or the potential for the future locations for the samples that we just mentioned. and this is important, as the opportunities potentially exists today, which can minimize the future neighborhood disruption at the time of the construction thanks so much. >> thank you. for your support of transportation throughout the city as well. any other comments? >> thank you, and very briefly, i have yours and that could not be quite as eloquent and the only thin

. >> the city of mill valley highly recommends that you prepare now for possible localized flooding. >> the digital sign is alerting mill valley residents to be ready for the storm. sandbags are in place in tiburon . this water pump failed. he hopes it does president -- doesn't happen twice. >> it will be almost like a church. please, don't sail. >>> and remember this scene from sky 7hd happened last week? parts of the 101 near marin city flooded out. they say they have cleaned storm drains to prevent a repeat performance. in sausalito, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >>> residents in the south bay worried about flooding can get free sandbags including san jose, morgan hill and in palo alto. these are folks in palo alto. people are asking -- or being asked to bring their own shovels to help shovel the sand into the sandbags. thisy are most effective when they use the bags to prevent one foot or less of flooding. >>> efforts are well underway to prevent a potential storm disaster in san francisco. crews removed loose rock from the lombard section of telegraph hill. boulders tumbled down t

in fashion we have a similar formula retail where people try to should you horn into the city and silicon valley is doing that and folks are embracing that i'm concerned about the small building being demolished i support the housing 33 percent we're almost there we talked about pdr whether they're a zoning or pdr zoning i mentioned to the forest city folks if you have an office pdr drops about fourth of them are in food so sitting in the office we consume a lot of food so to get jobs in the neighborhood food service is a great a way to go i saw the page there's a lot of data i want to meet with you, sir it look like we dropped a pencil off to the landowner i asked for that last item i guess i have a question what's the benefit to the city i want to see that there's a cost above but the city didn't talk about the benefit i was there twice the traffic issues are ridiculous so we're putting a massive development it took me 35 minutes to do one block in my car eventually to get to the car i took muni and thought how do people around with the additional developments i'm a bit worried about i agree w