but we are also under the flood risk as a lot of the runoff from yesterday's heavy rainfall continues to drain into the streams and creeks. looking at some of the high wind gusts we had yesterday, marin county had a wind gust peaking at 90 miles per hour, and santa cruz mountains add a wind gust at 78. even at the oakland airport, we had a 59-mile-per-hour wind st there is a wind advisory in effect for the hills. there will be waves of rain coming through, potentially even thunderstorms and a few more breaks compared to what we had yesterday afternoon. as we go into this evening, we will gradually start to see the storm taper off and we will take a brief break before the next

storm comes in. i will be tracking that. vianey arana is watching the roadways and still standing water in some spots. >> especially along some of the localized ets, surfaces, news is the highways had a quick response into the overnight hours, so a lot of the sig-alerts that happened last night did car as of this morning. san josé interchange moving along. for the most part we have the unfortunate usual closure, and i am seeing an accident on 580 in the westbound lanes, looks like ere could be a lane being blocked by an earlier crash. another spot you may want to look at is interchange from 152 down through gilroy, please be careful and slow it down out there. the latest storm taking a tragic turn in the north bay

where one death is already confirmed. this happened last night in rural sonoma county where a falling tree smashed into a home killing an infant. the baby's parents were uninjured, and the incident weighed extremely heavy on first responders. >> anytime you have a situation like this especially with a child, everybody's emotions are a lot higher. >> accordi to "the press democrat," a tree fell into a double wide rv and the baby died before the emergency personnel could transport them to the hospital. also in the north bay this morning, growing concern on waterways as they reach their limit. lot of people fearing flooding may come. >> and today pete suratos is

live and this area has a history with flooding with the nearby creek. how is it looking now? >> reporter: yeah, there's that history when that flooded this downtown area. the creek areas are well below the flood stage, but because of the history you just mentioned, laura, we have all these sandbags. they know when it rains, folks are concerned because of the history where you had a lot of flooding in this area several years back. let's talk about the entire north bay, say in the santa rosa area. this is a tweet from santa rosa. you see these downed trees, and that's what you see across the bay area, and so much saturated soil from the back-to-back storms in the previous rains. you get the strong wind gusts and you get trees knocked down. that's what we are seeing in santa rosa. a big night for folks in that

area. i want to go to sonoma county. this is where we are looking at the russian river that is prone to flooding. it's expected to reach flood stages in a matter of days. i did take a recent look at the noaa website where folks can monitor when it will reach that flood stage, and it looks like it will hit flood stage sunday morning. of course that data can change. when it floods near the russian area, it's low-lying areas near the russian area are prone to flooding. sonoma county has an evacuation order because it's always a concern especially if it appears it could hit that flood stage on sunday morning. let's take you out here live. you see the sandbags set up, and it's along this entire area, folks. we are preparing for that storm, but so far so good. no flooding in downtown.

our team coverage continues with today in the bay's candice nguyen. look at that damage at the gas station behind you, candice. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, laura. good morning to you. the first thing that sticks out is the shear size of this canopy behind me, and it's as large as a swimming pool, i might add. this entire area blocked off by tape, if i step to the side and we zoom in a bit, take a look at the gas pumps. at least two crushed under the canopy. the employees say the structure may have been slumping before the winds blew it down. this vallejo gas station is in san francisco, and the canopy came crashing down yesterday

when strong winds came sweeping through across the bay area. we are not smelling gas either, and folks cleared out fearing something like this could happen and of course, in preparation for this storm. public works, crews were breaking down a tree, and the department said their morning is far from over as emergency crews work to clear roads this morning, thee asking all of uso do what we can to stay safe. >> this is a great reminder, if you don't need to be out driving in this weather whenever you are in the storm system, please consider staying at home. >> reporter: back out here live, no doubt windy this morning. i am feeling it right now. felt it in the car driving from the san mateo over, and felt it shaking around my car. had to be careful on the roads. as for the rain, as you can see,

it's relatively dry and has been for the last couple of hours, and of course, this rain expected to return soon. live from san francisco, and back to you. >> thank you. normally this time of day we are talking about the weekend weather, and this is a weekend weather of storms. >> right, there will be more waves of rain coming in and potentially thunderstorms, and i know you are trying to make plans here but look at what is ahead, as we go into tomorrow we will see rain going into the north bay and spreads into the rest of the bay area early on saturday. looks soggy throughout the day on saturday as well as sunday and then it will go into a new week with more rain. if you are trying to get to lake tahoe, tomorrow is a good travel day, but i do advise that you stay past sunday and most likely past monday as well until we get another break. extend that trip, but we are going to give them a chance to clear those roads for late tonight and into early tomorrow. the earlier the better if you

are going to the tahoe region. if you are heading a little bit further south, there will also be rain and there will be a break for tomorrow and early on saturday, but then on saturday afternoon into sunday, rain will be moving in for paso robeles. it looks soggy throughout the day on saturday as well as sunday, and those temperatures will be coming down. we're watching all of these conditions as we do get a couple more storms coming in, we will take it hour by hour and talk about how much rain we already measured and what is ahead as we go into the weekend. that's coming up in a few minutes. vianey has been watching the roads. look at the san mateo bridge. looks good. >> looks good and is moving along, and chp, of course, is warning drivers that the wind will be picking up, and it makes it tough especially on the bridges. they have high wind advisories in place, the venetian bridge and there's no major impact as

far as flooding on the highways. there's leftover, of course, ponding water for some of the on-ramps and off-ramps. this is in through gilroy right at the inner pass. we have flooding out there, and will talk more about drive times and public transportation coming up. >> thank you. coming up on "today in the bay," new details emerging on the leak of information tied to hundreds of millions of accounts hundreds of millions of accounts and the data that may be

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good thursday morning. right now at 4:41, we are under a microclimate weather alert, although the activity is starting to wind down for some of us, and we are seeing scattered activity out there as you get ready to head out the door. live look in san josé, conditions improving on the interstate, but some of the side roads may have puddles. i will have a look at the forecast into the weekend coming up in a few minutes. a live look at the san mateo bridge. at least the traffic is moving along. we do have a couple slower spots throughout the bay area. i will take you through the timing of your morning commute, but first let's check in with business and tech. >> good morning. wall street is set for a flat open as investors look past a

hawkish tone and it was a choppy session yesterday with stocks recovering late in the day. the s&p 500 and nasdaq also ending positive. in focus today, reports on hiring in the private sector, and jobless claims and the trade deficit. meantime, 235 million twitter accounts have been leaked and posted to an online hacker forum. the data includes account names, handles and e-mail addresses, which could be phishing, or hacking user accounts. the data was likely compiled in 2021 through a flaw twitter said it identified last summer. the consumer electronics show officially kicks off today in las vegas. the show is getting back to normal after being virtual in 2021 and seeing a big drop in attendance last year. big names like samsung and lc

and smaller startups unveiling their content. there's a head set that let's passengers play games while they ride. i am not sure how i feel about that, right? >> i would be so sick. yeah, presumably the passenger. that would be worse than reading in the car. you have ever read your phone or something, oh, god, yeah. we will skip that one. thank you. >> get you some drama mean. meteorologist, kari hall, back with how things are shaping up, and vianey monitoring the roads. >> first, school closers to tell you about due to the storm,

including guernville. we have a full list of closers online. you can find it on our

this morning. there's still no house speaker after republican leader kevin mccarthy failed to secure enough votes for a second day in a row. nbc news learned kevin mccarthy has put a new offer on the table for conservative holdouts and it includes anyone member of the house to call a vote to remove the speaker at anytime. brie jackson has more on whether his new plan to sway votes is even working. >> day two of the new congress resembling day one. >> a speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. >> republican kevin mccarthy failing to secure the house speaker position for the sixth time. >> we'll just keep talking. that's all. >> mccarthy putting new as placing freedom caucus ble,

members on a committee. >> he's a desperate guy whose vote share is dropping with every subsequent vote and i am ready to vote all night, all week and all month and not for that person. >> even trump's call to vote for mccarthy has fallen on deaf ears. new members can't be sworn in and committees can't be formed. >> my point is, we have work to do that we can't do right now. >> the speaker standoff shows little sign of ending. >> we have not heard one thing from either kevin mccarthy or his enemies in the gop about what they will do to make the lives of americans better. >> president biden is weighing in on the bitter battle calling it an embarrassment tarnishing

the country's image. >> this is not a good look. not a good thing. this is the united states of america and i hope they get their act today. >> house members will cast their votes for speaker today, and many wonder will the third vote be the charm? two of the three defendants accused in the deadly shooting of a toddler on interstate 880 are scheduled to appear in court. authorities so far only provided the booking photo for one of the suspects, johnny jackson, and he's scheduled to attend a plea hearing today. and the second suspect, trevor green will appear for a warrant hearing. and jasper wu died a year ago after a bullet pierced the car during a shootout. turning back to our storm coverage in the east bay, look at this. cleanup continues after a large

tree fell. drivers are being asked to avoid the area. and viewers are sharing video, rain, pictures, and be sure and share your videos by tagging us. >> more storms are headed our way. >> it will be off and on today, and with the breaks in between you may havehe opportunity to get out there today and get things done before that rain returns. let's talk about how much we already measured around the bay area with two and a quarter inches of rainfall in santa rosa. napa getting an inch and a quarter there, a little more than that. more than two and a quarter inches for concord, and almost an inch of rain for hayward, and in san francisco, in redwood city, about an inch and quarter there. looking at the mountains where we typically see a lot more rainfall, the santa cruz

mountains highest rainfall total, right now over five inches of rainfall. for santa lena, over 2 1/2 inches of rainfall. and mount tam nearing two inches, and mount diablo nearing an inch and a half. we are nearing significant rainfall even though we are not done with the storm just yet. we have seen the center of the storm and where we typically see the strongest of the thunderstorms, it's bringing waves into the area. scattered activity, and parts of the north bay getting a break and we are seeing hit or miss rain in parts of the east bay as well as the south bay getting a closer look at where more people may be driving at this time on 280, and heading northward we are seeing some of the downpours moving through, also extending towards 101 in palo alto and

mountain view, heavy rain coming down right now. we are also going to have a potential of small hail. the flood watch continues for all of the bay area for today. we are still going to see the water coming down and drain into the creeks and rivers. they may continue to rise as we go into today. also some gusty winds that may continue for the morning, but we are going to gradually start to see the winds calming down. there's also the landslide potential that will continue, and heavy sierra snow will continue to come down for today. we talked about mudslides and debris flows, and with all of this heavy rain coming down, it doesn't really have a chance to get absorbed in the soil, at least when the rainfall rates are high. even once it does, we have a lot of rain that's coming down and it's also creating some very soggy conditions out there. if you are near a hill, especially near a burn scar, that could run off and we are looking at the potential of

mudslides that will continue for the next several days and possibly weeks because of all the heavy rain. we are going to continue to see gusty winds. they dropped the high wind warning but we are still under a wind advisory for the coastal areas as well as the hills. some of those gusts may reach 30 to 40 miles per hour, possibly still up to 70, but i do think the winds are starting to relax a little bit. as far as our wind gusts forecast, here we are at 10:30. we are still getting 30 and slightly higher wind gusts along the coast. as we go into this evening, about 8 to 10-mile-per-hour winds. there's a brief break before the next storm system comes in before the weekend, and first starting in the north bay as we head into tomorrow afternoon, and continuing off and on throughout the weekend, there will be more storms on monday and tuesday, and possibly on wednesday and thursday. more atmospheric rivers heading our way so we will be dealing with all of the heavy rain with not a lot of breaks in between.

we take a look at the 7-day forecast. we basically have to put a rain icon on almost every single day except for tomorrow. we will start to see the rain returning to the north bay late tomorrow evening. we are tracking all this and will have more of the weather forecast and taking it hour by hour, and that's coming up in a few minutes. all right. thank you. well, happening now the storm is creating major roadblocks on the central coast, a portion of highway 1 shutdown near big sur. caltrans blocked it with a metal barrier. it goes to ragged point. caltrans says this area is vulnerable to flooding as well as mud and rock slides, but no estimates on when it will reopen. it's 4:57 right now. our storm ranger is tracking it all. here's live look outside on this thursday morning. much more ahead. you're watchin"today in the g

anytime you have a situation like this, especially with a child emotions are a lot higher. >> the driveway became a river and the water crossed the garage. >> major cleanup under way across the bay area as the latest storm downs trees and damages homes and buildings, creeping crews very busy overnight. the storm also taking a deadly turn when a tree crashed into a

sonoma home killing an infant inside. thousands waking up in the dark this morning, and the response some leader are taking to help affected residents. you're watching "today in the bay." good thursday morning to you. i am scott mcgrew. marcus washington has the week off. >> i am laura garcia. we went on early this morning at 4:00 to bring you the latest on the storm and the damage overnight. let's start out with meteorologist, kari hall. she's tracking where that storm is going and what is coming our way. >> we will see it breaking up a little more, but that doesn't mean it will be as strong. there will be intense waves of rain coming through for today. we are seeing the storm rolling across the region, and also producing more thunderstorms especially just off to our east. as we zoom into the bay area, much more of us are getting a break and also seeing not as much heavy rain as we did yesterday evening, but any additional rainfall could cause problems and we are seeing