. right now on nbc bay area news tonight, a powerful storm less than 24 hours away. potential evacuations and flooding. we'll break down exactly what to expect hour by hour and what your options are if you do get flooded out. also, the life-threatening injury to damar hamlin. the impact it's having on the players and fans across the country. and sam bankman-fried pleading not guilty. what's next for the disgraced crypto mogul accused of fraud? good evening. i'm raj mathai. this is not normal. not often do we have such rain damage and flooding across the bay area. almost every county facing problems. next up, rain, flooding, wind,

and possible power outages. we're talking inches of rain and 40-mile-per-hour winds. you can see just how big this storm is. this is the view from space courtesy of the go west satellite. tonight we want to make sure you have all the information to be prepared. the race is on to clean up and really just to prep now. for a lot of people that meant securing sandbags. check out the line in san francisco. cars just waiting here several blocks long. we saw a lot of people at sandbag filling stations across the bay area. various locations from los altos, menlo park, and san francisco. now, why the concern over the weekend? you probably know this. widespread flooding. that has a lot of people still cleaning up. one of the hardest places hit, homes and businesses in san francisco's mission district near 17th and fulsome. today mayor breed outlined the city's plan to handle the next

downpour. she also responded to those who say the city was not prepared last weekend. those who live near 17th and fulsome say the city did not deploy its usual storm barriers. >> we were under the impression and notified by our national weather service that we could anticipate not even an inch of rain and, in fact, what we saw within a 24-hour period was 5.5 inches of rain. >> let's bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we'll leave the finger-pointing for another conversation. the city saying they didn't prepare for it even though i know your forecasts were a little different. let's talk about what's coming up in the next 24 hours. >> this storm system, as we've been saying, is powerful by all accounts. it's rapidly strengthening right now. the core of the storm, the counterclockwise circulation, that's going to be heading off to the north. but we're getting this atmospheric river tap that's going to join in and boost up those totals. so i think tonight we're okay. we're not seeing anything big. storm is out here, and then you can see by tomorrow morning's

commute, look at that. 5:00 in the morning we're into some of this yellow, which is some moderate rain, pockets of heavy area rain offshore. 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. going to be wet on the commute. through the day tomorrow, by about 10:00 and 11:00, it will seem like a little bit of a break. but this thing is going to come back around and slam us. look at this. marin, napa, sonoma counties, just going to get a deluge here. then that's going to gradually move down to the south bay by 9:00 tomorrow evening. then after this, we're going to undergo some on and off periods of rainfall as we head into thursday's forecast. eventually it exists by thursday night. >> so we saw what we got a couple days ago in terms of inches. what are you expecting in terms of how much rain in this next 48 hours? >> that is a great question because right now it does not look like as much rainfall as we had with this weekend's storm. but the problem we get into is the ground is so saturated. so tomorrow morning through about 11:00 a.m., it's only a quarter to about three-quarters of an inch. but once we hit tomorrow night

as we showed you and into thursday morning, there we go. so find your city. look at the key at the top. you can see most of the bay area is in this purple color. that's at least two inches. then down here near san jose, somewhat of a rain shadow also clear to fremont. we may only be in three-quarters to 1 1/2 inches in that area, but all in all, a big hit of rain as we move through a 24-howard period. >> the wild card here, last couple of days we've seen rain and flooding. now wind is the third thing. >> it is. with the ground being saturated, trees could come down pretty easy. >> that's a recipe for power outages. >> you got it. wind gusts 20 to 50 miles per hour coming out of the south. we are looking at dangerous creeks and rivers running very high and fast. landslide potential. heavy sierra snow could even close roads. real quickly, i wanted to show you -- i know you're used to this along the russian river. i wanted to put this warning out here. flood warning along the russian river near guerneville.

that's through 10:00 a.m. on sunday because it's expected to go to 35 feet. flood stage is 32. a reminder for anyone out there. if you approach that standing water, turn around and head in the other direction. two feet of water can carry a car away. >> that's when injuries get involved. charge up your batteries, your cell phones and your flashlights because we could be in thahat situatation. > that's e easy to f forget righght? >> we'e'll see youou in j just minutes.s. we're s seeing damamage from th last storm. this sininkhole opepened up overninight rightht under a an . it happened around 1:00 a.m. in daly city shortly after the water main below collapsed. now, crews showed up later to remove that suv there. then the water department came in and vacuumed out the water and the mud. further down the peninsula, homeowners flooded out in redwood city are rushing to prepare for round two. let's bring in nbc bay area's marianne favro. >> reporter: i'm here on baine place in redwood city where a creek overflowed behind homes.

as a result, the water came rushing down the street. you can see where the street is still muddy. then it continued going up the street as well. there was that much water. i want to show you some of the damage. here is a fence. there was so much water coming through the backyard of this home that it busted out the fence. i talked to one woman who estimates that her home sustained more than $10,000 worth of damage because the floodwaters went into her family room, her office, her bedroom, and she lost many things, possibly her rugs. but also she lost family heirlooms and photo albums that meant a lot to her in addition to artwork. so today people here are really doing double duty. first of all, they have a luge cleanup job, so they have been running fans inside their home, trying to air out their homes, dry out everything, putting rugs out on their driveway, and getting rid of things that are not salvageable. but they are also hunting for sandbags and trying to establish some kind of barrier so that

this won't happen again when the storm hits tomorrow. in redwood city, marianne favro. back to you. there are some things you can do to prepare for the storm before, during, and after, especially when it comes to flooding. let's bring in our consumer investigator, chris chmura. we're not just talking about sandbags. give me some pro tips. >> an important thing is we've got to treat it like a fire. people will probably have to evacuate their homes in a hurry. when you do that, you're frazzled. so tonight pack one of those go bags, the essentials you would need if you have to spend a couple nights in a hotel. also make some non-perishable food, a change of clothes, a mask, medicine is really important, a couple days' worth of prescription medicine, and don't forget the pets. pack a go bag. >> it's like an earthquake. say your home does flood. your home, garage, your car. what are your options here? >> well, so i think as far as

insurance is concerned -- >> i don't think i have flood insurance. i don't think most of us do, do we? >> 1.5% of california residents. most of us are on our own. only 204,000 insured out of 14 million housing units. you'll kind of be on your own. this is why we harp on cleaning the gutters, trying to seal everything up, do everything you can to protect your home because most people are on their own when it comes to covering the damage from floods. it's too late to buy a policy, a new one for this storm because it takes about 30 days, we're told, for a new policy to kick in. >> what about our cars? we've seen so many cars like on el camino and various roads around the bay area flooded. >> the good news is most car insurance does cover problems with a vehicle that gets flooded. here's the thing. you just don't want to have it happen because that water will go all over the place and you'll likely end up with some sort of mold situation down the road. so ideally speaking, obviously

close the windows. if you can, move the car someplace higher. you've got a garage at work? maybe take the car to work and put it in the garage on the second or third floor. >> not like this garage in palo alto. >> that's obviously not the second or third floor. we hope not, right? for a lot of folks, that's our second biggest investment. protect the house. protect the car. so many other tips, i'm sure, out there. so try to think those things through. >> all good information. thank you, chris. still to come, you may already know this. but any floodwater you come across may be hazardous to your health. what you should do if you can't avoid coming in contact with that floodwater or if it ends up seeping into your home. that story coming up in about ten minutes. also tonight, it feels like a gut punch here watching this story unfold. buffalo bills player damar hamlin remains in critical condition in a cincinnati hospital. his injury, an uncomfortable reminder for players and fans

really about the dangers and violence of pro football. hamlin collapsed during last night's game between the bills and bengals. cardiac arrest. doctors haven't said if the injury was directly related to the tackle, but for nearly ten minutes, medical teams performed cpr and gave hamlin oxygen right on the field. then he was rushed to a trauma hospital. >> they were there immediately, starting cpr, which is important. they had defibrillators on hand. i'm sure they used those during cpr to get him resuscitated and get him to the hospital. >> today hamlin's family released this statement. they thanked everyone for their love and support saying, quote, your generosity and compassion mean the world to us. a spokesman for the family added that hamlin is fighting, and the whole family is taking it minute by minute, hour by hour. here in the bay area, a message of support at levi's stadium. red and gold for the 49ers, but now a lot of buffalo bills blue lit up in the bills colors along with hamlin's name and jersey

number right there in santa clara. the game between the bills and bengals has been put on hold indefinitely. the nfl says it will not be played this week at all. this is certainly a major scheduling problem for the entire nfl, but right now schedule is not the concern. let's bring in dr. harry edwards, a nationally renowned sociologist and civil rights activist. he's been a consultant for the 49ers for decades and joins us from his home in the east bay. dr. edwards, you've been in nfl locker rooms for decades. what are we seeing here? is this a turning point for the game of football? >> it very well could be. it depends upon how it's managed. there are some things you simply cannot prepare for strategically, and one of them is a perfect storm of developments such as this occurrence in the wake a number of high profile quarterbacks,

running backs being out. it's very difficult for the league to prepare for this. in point of fact, nobody is to blame. the athletes take the risk. they know at some point the risk cannot be reduced any further. it comes down to luck, and sometimes the luck runs out. and what we end up with is a perception, an image that oftentimes can be more impactful and consequential than reality. and the league is going to have to deal with this. we talk about whether or not the game's going to be rescheduled. that has an impact. i think if i were making that call, i would simply call an overtime period. i mean this whole game was put into overtime. i would call an overtime period where the two teams go out and actually compete on the field for that ten minutes and decide this rather than trying to put on a whole game. that's a huge production. at the end of the day, it's complicated. there's nobody to blame. and what we end up with is hope

for the athlete and support for the family and his friends. >> dr. edwards, let's be clear here. damar hamlin is alive and we hope he will recover. but there have been two players that have died playing in the nfl. chuck hughes of the lions back in 1971 and more recently 49ers offensive lineman thomas hairian after a preseason game. things have changed since '71 and 2005. how does the nfl respond to this now? >> well, i think the nfl has to take into consideration that, again, this was a perfect storm. you live in a media age, social media, sports media is more sophisticated than ever. and at the same time, this was an accident. this was something that occurred at the point of attack. it wasn't something that occurred in the locker room like thomas hair on. it wasn't something that occurred during a period when you didn't have this saturation media. this player was making a tackle

and irrespective of whether his condition has anything to do with football, we don't know what happened. the perception and the image is that it did, and the league is going to have to manage that. they're going to have to deal with it. it's going to be difficult and at the same time, this season is rolling on. there are consequences for this game not being played. and this is, again, something that the league is simply going to have to manage and keep in perspective as this young man fights for his life and as his family supports him and hopefully everybody else in this country is supporting the family and him as well. >> dr. edwards, we appreciate your time and your insight on this matter. we hope you have a good evening. thank you. >> thank you very much. up next, sam bankman-fried is back in court. the former crypto ceo pleading not guilty to charges of fraud. what else happened in court today and what's next in the case, specifically when he's coming back to the peninsula. and stay out of that water.

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risks. if you can, avoid that water. joining us now, way mond wong with the san mateo county health department. thanks for joining us. what kind of harmful things end up in that floodwater. >> so as we've seen in the last couple days and will likely see in the next few days is that when these rainwaters accumulate, they overwhelm our sanitary sewer system. so there's the potential for raw sewage. it picks up animal waste along the streets as well as chemicals from the streets or the cars or people's garages. so realize that there's a lot of potential hazards in there. we want to make sure that everybody's aware that the water presents some dangers to them. we want them to take the appropriate precautions as best they can. >> what if you cannot avoid being in contact with the floodwater? say you have to go down in your basement or garage or apartment? what precautions can we take? >> yeah. so if you absolutely have to come into contact, we recommend that you wear rubber gloves,

rubber boots to protect yourself. if you can't, if you don't have those materials readily available, just make sure once you're completed with the cleanup activity, you wash your hands frequently with soap and clean water. now, we also recommend that kids not be around the area, to have them away from the area as much as possible as well as your pets, your cats and dogs, because, you know, they're much closer to the water, and it will be much more difficult to clean their paws when you get them out of there. >> all good guidance. final question. if your car gets flooded, best way to clean it up? >> well, you're going to have to dry it out and hopefully, you know, work with your car insurance company to find some other ways that they can help provide that assistance because we want to make sure that you wash it out with soap and water. use disinfectant and then wait

for the air to dry it out. you can use dehumidifiers or fans to assist and speed up the process, but oftentimes that will just take time. >> none of this is fun. waymond wong with the san mateo county health department, thanks for your time tonight. you can find more weather resources on our nbcbayarea.com website and our nbc bay area app. really good resources. that includes a running list of where you can find free sandbags in your neighborhood. just go to nbcbayarea.com. click on the link right there on the top on our trending bar. another headline we're watching this evening. sam bankman-fried headed back to the bay area, back on house arrest. this comes after he pleaded not guilty today in a new york city courtroom. take a look. the disgraced crypto executive says he's not guilty of fraud. the bay area native is the founder of ftx, which recently collapsed. outside the courthouse, swamped he was by cameras. his mother was actually there.

stanford professor barbara fried. inside the courtroom, bankman-fried did not speak. his lawyers entered a not guilty plea for the eight charges he faces. his trial is set now for october 2nd. i spoke with cnbc technology correspondent kate rooney about this case. >> the ideal outcome a lot of legal experts are telling me would be to negotiate something outside of a trial. but the expectation right now is that the trial will start october 2nd. it will last for about four weeks, and we did get some new details from inside the courtroom. the next step here, the prosecutor says the government will provide bankman-fried's defense team with hundreds of thousands of documents. so a lot of evidence for them to comb through over the next few months here. >> we talk about sam bankman-fried. we talk about his parents, who are profs at stanford. what about the people who lost their money? the u.s. attorney's office is launching a task force to help the victims. how is this going to work? >> yeah. so this is from the southern district of new york, the top

prosecutors there. they're trying to track down ftx assets. by some estimates, there's $8 billion missing, and the people involved here are the top prosecutors that work on the money laundering unit, criminal enterprise units. they really said it's the a team here for the u.s. attorney in the southern district. they really called in an all hands on deck moment. they're clearly using all of the resources they have at hand and taking this quite seriously and bringing in some of their top brass. the only other comparison out there is the bernie madoff trial. they had a similar task force and similar commitment from the prosecutors there. >> going to be an interesting several months regarding this case, which has stemmed right here in the bay area. up next, a live look at the bay bridge.

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all right. take a look. a lot of people heading to the grocery store, stocking up ahead of these incoming storms. this is the trader joe's in oakland this afternoon. that's quite a crowd. they had some empty shelves there. we're hearing similar stories from other grocery stores around the bay area. jeff ranieri is back with us. that is something pretty smart. stock up before it's hard to travel around. you don't want to be on the roads. >> that's exactly right. we're looking at three different storms as we move through the next seven days. the latest one is going to be hitting us here at least starting as we roll through tomorrow morning with some heavier pockets of rain.

let's get you a closer look at this in our forecast. what i want to show you and as we roll through tomorrow, again, 5:00 to 7:00 a.m., we'll start to see some of that rain. we'll get in on a little bit of what seems to be like a break around 10:00 in the morning. then we're going to get slammed right here through the afternoon from 4:00 over the north bay, then pushing down towards the south bay by 9:00 p.m. after this, we'll keep some lingering on and off heavier pockets on thursday's forecast. right now totals do not look as high as what we had this past weekend. but it's still a strong punch of rain. most of the bay area in that purple color, that's good for at least two inches. we'll get some rain shadowing around san jose and the east bay. maybe around 1 to 1 1/2 in those locations. because the ground's already saturated, rivers are already starting to get full. we do think the russian river at guerneville is going to hit 35 feet. flood stage is 32 feet. sierra snow as well, raj, is going to stack up in feet. and check this out.

second storm on saturday. third one coming in next monday and also tuesday. >> that's active. this is what we need. this is what we wanted. we just have to be careful here. thank you, jeff. that's going to do it for us at 7:00. for everyone here at nbc bay ea,ar

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