morning news. rain coming down as we speak. his community's struggle to clean up after the stadium with everything you need to know before tomorrow's playoff matchup. >> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at >> good morning. and here we go again with the rain and ari and i'm james. it is falling right now in some pockets heavy. we've got john started things off for us in the weather center with a look at the forecast as we take a look outside, john, we can see it coming down. yeah, it's starting to come down out there for some of us for some of the north bay. you've been steing it for a minute now. but this line of showers in some cases packing a punch with it. >> this is what we've got in san francisco right now. gray

skies and rain fall as really worked its way through already right in the heart of the morning commute, which i know isn't necessarily going make things easy for you. you see some of that heavier shower activity in yellow, stretching the north bay are right down the core of the bay area into the santa cruz mountains. we're going to start here right in the midst of san francisco as well as some of our bridges. you have some heavier showers right here in the middle of the bay affecting the bay bridge. center fell saw some heavy stuff on the golden gate to center fell itself. richmond, san francisco, oakland, you're about to see an uptick in rainfall for you. let's go a little bit further north in the bay santa rose that you saw some heavier stuff as well as over in windsor. that's mostly moving over in the napa county. now, lake county, you've been seeing it consistently rainy over the course of really the past couple of it's not let up for you for a minute. let's head a little further southward. so right back there through the middle of the bay san mateo bridge, you're seeing mostly moderate showers right now. little pocket of heavier stuff right around stanford, palo alto and then up into the

santa cruz mountains, some heavier stuff to further south from their morgan hill down to gilroy. also in the midst of some moderate shower activity. we've got more ahead of us to you see all that sitting offshore right there. that's yet to make its way inland. so don't expect this to be the end of it. a pretty wet morning commute. korea will start to calm things down really late hour on towards 09:00am and we'll see some peeks of sunshine mid morning into early afternoon that sunshine allow some convection storm building and by 3.45, you start to see some darker clouds forming by 04:05:06pm, could even hear some roles of thunder as we make our way through the evening commute, a quiet evening before the heaviest of rain pushes in tomorrow morning. and this is where flooding concerns really become an issue. flood watches are set take effect tomorrow morning lasting through the weekend. after that point, winds already picking up along the coastline. we've had 40 to 50 miles per hour. wind gusts at the coast. so the storm packing a punch with that 50's for current temperatures right

now. most of us will stay there into the afternoon. so not a lot of temperature movement today, but we will see these on and off showers and at times some heavy rainfall rain. right, john, thank you for that. will you talked about the north bay, the east bay? we're starting to see traffic building along one. a 1, 2, >> novato san rafale 80 traveling to richmond, emeryville. we also do have an accident in sausalito that southbound on. i want to store the spencer avenue a highway for also picking up as well and highway. 37, so be mindful that you are starting to see traffic building a bit 90 minute ride into the city slick bay bridge. be careful. 20 minutes, systemwide bar delay in place. 15 minutes. a 80 to 101. as you head across towards the peninsula, richmond, sandra fell bridge. you can see just how sloped the lenses here. so it is coming down the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls about 40 minutes because 101 is going slow right now. look how wet it is. drive slower darya. james, back to you. all right. >> went out there and it's

going wetter and windier. i think that someone might know. yeah. well, there's going to be hopefully will be a problem for the niners as they kick off the nfc postseason as the second see tomorrow, we know it's supposed to rain. that's in the forecast as the seahawks come to town kron four's will tran standing by live at the stadium. >> with more on all of that will. >> i just saw nick bosa drive right by me. and you can see some of the nice cars chains. so those players are coming in right now and they hope to continue coming into levi stadium as they want to continue their season. but first, things first, they have to play the seattle seahawks basically a rival for the past 10 years or so. the niners, it's dry. now, james, i gave you some love on social media about the rain coming, but they didn't stop right now. but we do know the common opponent tomorrow will be the heavy rainfall. let me show you some practice video. i'm sure they took that into account. they'll have all the rain gear in cleats. ready to go for mother nature and the

seattle they beat twice this year. but the last game was a slugfest. 21 to 13 and that was the first time that brock purdy took on the seattle seahawks. they're very familiar with each other. coach kyle shanahan. well, he's not going to give bulletin board material. he knows that the hawks are a tough opponent. he also knows the rain will also be very tough opponent. >> so game down game 3 and a half hours. the playoffs. i would get all people. stuff like say, but playoffs. why some play and you know, the last possession >> okay. so las vegas or rain or not, las vegas believes that the niners will win by at

least a touchdown favoring the niners by 9 and a half block party is already one. and you know what? he should go and buy himself a mega millions ticket because he is a lottery winner. as far as the fans are concerned, third-string the start off the season and once he takes the field james and darya, he will make history as the lowest drafted rookie quarterback to start a playoff game. so brock purdy, wherever you're at, can i join your lottery pool kickoff one 30 tomorrow. back to you. >> can't get drafted much lower than to 62 both back and hope your luck holds out in the brain parts. every time you come out for a life if that's fantastic. yeah. and good luck on the lottery. all of you in if you're thinking about using maybe your lottery for the game might need to tell you could load 10 grand lobby up pricey. but we found the cheapest get tickets right now. if you're really interested, just want happ over levi's tomorrow. for less

former niners walk through like joe montana, jerry rice. maybe you've heard of them fans. sure. can you imagine? and so everybody is excited to see the niners play tomorrow. >> the niners are role for the super no stopping with red goal. >> i like that on the rover to that's a good phrase. all with the weather office. yet because of a deal, it is big deal because they often call it the great equalizer. probably going to be liw scoring game. if everybody slipping around dry come down to a field goal to win it and the winds could really impact that. joe johns been watching that morning. looks like it's going to make it then that

wind has covid. hopefully that doesn't happen. but yeah, it does look like the game tomorrow. going to be a little bit rough. that means get out there with all your niners gear, especially those rain jackets. if you've got him, it's not just the rain, but the really strong winds in excess of 30 miles per hour, especially for those nosebleed seats, a little higher up more exposed to some of those peak wind gusts. it looks like around kickoff time. it should be a bit calmer. but rainfall pushing in leader in the 2nd half. it's going to make things a little bit tricky out there, not just for the players, but for anyone that's sitting in the stands. he just want to stay at home and watch it. obviously it's going to be the safer bet and the much drier, more comfortable that too. but definitely an interesting one to watch tomorrow. weather wise, just as much as the game will be. interesting. back to you. thanks a lot. and take a look at what george kittle had to say because his own struggle. well, yeah, his powers, but you can see tweet yo pg and build up our 4 days and i like help would be appreciated. thanks. >> just trying to prepare for

something this week. he's been playing lights out. >> all season, really the 2nd half of the season since parties come on board. and and, you know, you want to lie and you don't want to mess with like what they're used to. yeah, it's sleeping in your own bed. having those comforts of your own place at all is a psychological plus for having a home yeah. well. >> maybe leaves and the dirty on the ferry, right? so it doesn't ever powers. can't wash his clothes. hopefully. all right. we will continue our forty-niners coverage and their journey into the playoffs. >> every night on the red and gold zone. proper sports director jason dumas, along with kate rooney and aaron wilson will be covering everything in-depth analysis. the highlights all of it and it will kick off tonight at 10, 30. >> 809, is the time right now. and as we're getting more rain today, we had a break yesterday to try to clean some things up. and there's a big concern and cleanup necessary on a street hayward. look at this. the side of the road fell into san lorenzo creek,

the street, a main artery that connects hayward to castro valley. so that's a problem now is barricaded there. danger signs up and got a lot of work to do sidewalk. really light post all destroyed when the ground underneath eroded and the heavy downpours. repretentative eric swalwell get out there in person and toured the damage yesterday. here's what he has to say. >> to just see it in because so many of us, you know, have just rely on the local infrastructure here. >> there's over 20 examples of critical failures on infrastructure that we and in alameda county as rest to the 9 bay area counties use. >> now all this damage this is going to cost about 52 million dollars to repair. and swalwell says he's asking the state to reimburse the county. they can actually start to work yet until the conditions are better. and if we look at the forecast, that means maybe midweek next week would be of a break. that might be substantial enough to get some work done.

>> we have some breaking news we're following from overnight in east palo alto police officer is recovering after being shot. yeah. so the incident started as a traffic stop and then obviously it escalated. kron four's camila barco. >> is up in the newsroom to explain what happened coming up. >> yeah, well, that officer suffered one gunshot wound and is expected to be ok, the police department says that they have a man in custody and they say that the weapon used is a ghost gun. take a look at this map to give you a better idea of where the shooting took place. it happened just after 11:00pm in east palo alto in the area of 4 ham and purdue avenue. this is an area filled with many homes. investigators say an officer pulled over a car for a traffic stop. but the driver ran away and that's when officer started chasing the man down the block. police say that they were trying to to get the man in custody. but he ended up firing a gun and shooting an officer officer say that they did not fire back and they were able to get that man in custody. the officer shot is a five-year veteran of the east palo alto

police department. their injuries are said to be non life threatening and they're expected to survive. and daria, james, the suspect is willie wiley, a 44 year-old man of east palo alto. he is in custody and this is the firearms officers recovered. officers say it is a ghost gun that's been converted to be fully automatic with a high capacity magazine. and the department continues to investigate the shooting earlier this month, the east palo alto police department. remember one of their own officers who passed away in 2006 after being shot and killed while he was on patrol. i'll send it back to you. all right. thank you for the update. camilla. john. >> well, we are looking at rain pushing through as we speak. some of those heavier showers along 80 from richmond through hercules on up through the late show and eventually up american canyon into the napa valley. definitely a wet morning. it's just the start. morning. it's just the start. we've got a ve

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>> you can see sfo right now at that rain falling. let's get over to the weather graphics and you can see that. we've also got some gray skies over quite hour right here. rain actively following their pockets of heavy rain in the santa cruz mountains. also some really strong winds up there. also some pretty good rainfall, intensity of the north bay, too. zooming out. there's that line of showers stretching off shore on up into oregon. that's what's pushing through as we speak, packing a punch as far as winds and rain go. and it's just a storm door opening. it continues tomorrow on into sunday and monday, multiple days of rainfall. and you know what? that adds up to some flooding risk back in the forecast for us. futurecast shows today's burst of rainfall this morning. you will see some peeks of sunshine towards the late morning into early afternoon. that will allow convection storm building in towards 04:05:06pm, today could see a few thunderstorms popping up right in the middle of your drive home from work. we start to come down into the evening and tomorrow brings the most widespread and heaviest of rainfall this weekend. that is where your flooding risk really begins to increase. we

will see around 3 to even 7 inches of rainfall throughout the course of the weekend. and flood watches go back into effect starting tomorrow morning. so keep an eye on that, especially if you are in areas that had previously been flooded over the past couple of weeks. winter storm warnings take effect this afternoon at the crest of this year. 6 feet of new snow fall from the series of systems. love to see that snow pack more than anything else. upper 50's for your highs today. and as we work through this forecast, we stay in those 50's a little bit cooler towards next week. but guess what? those cooler temps accompanied by some drier conditions starting tuesday, rain. all right, john, thank you for that. we're picking up out there. so you'll notice our highways. >> 80 traveling through richmond and reveal right now busy 5.80, traveling through the maze along with we've got an accident that's in san leandro to northern davis 13. if you're taking that, you're going to wait some delays. also traveling along 101. you're definitely seeing conditions slowing 6.80, through san ramon. still nice and like there, though, 17

minutes slick commute into the city right now coupled with a 20 minute systemwide bar delay. looks like we have a hazard here as in the traveling or they're trying to get across towards the peninsula. you can see the visibility pretty pretty low there. 60 80 to 101, with definitely some rain. there. 80 traveling from saint down towards milpitas. about 30 minutes. the south bay 1, 0, 1, 36 minutes. 85 up towards menlo park. well, not as bad as 101, richmond center fell bridge. 8 minutes tolls to it's coming down. you can see that from the camera lens and the golden gate bridge. 43 minutes. that's because of 101 there. you've got some winds. got some fog drive slow darya. james, back to you. thank you, anna. >> all right. attorney general merrick garland on thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of classified documents were found president joe biden's home in wilmington, delaware. >> and joining us to discuss the political implications of this, michael yaki. good morning.

>> good morning. so, michael, what is going on? was it like a drip, drip, drip of we're getting more information, you know, over these days about the >> documents and then a lot of people think it makes it look like biden has something to hide. does years it just being mishandled. >> well, find that. i mean, the whole purpose of merrick garland appointing a special prosecutor and i might add a republican, a special prosecutor is to essentially we've been seen going on in mar-a-lago we have an issue with the with the current president. i think just been that one set of documents that would have been it. but having found the second set at the wilmington, i think in the garage. i think that's something where he almost had no choice. but from a legal and political point of view, that's a okay. we're going to do this now. what does it mean? i think i think that by issue to be taken care of fairly quickly, this is something where any classified

document checked out their protocols, their side out. we'll be interviewing the witnesses on those trying cheat and that will try to figure out and reconstruct what happened. but remember this one thing that's very different between what what's happening with president biden and with donald trump was dealing with, which is there is no sort of this back and forth moving in documents, putting them downstairs. we're going to the personal office, stuffing them in the budget. time magazine's claiming true social that they're my my my my so you know there there's h distinction the special prosecutor is really what's needed to sort of draw that distinction out between the 2. it's not a good look because great political fodder to the i should put detractors in the congress and the timing just wasn't that great. >> and we should say the that special prosecutor, robert her, as you said, a one-time u.s. attorney actually appointed by donald trump. and

you say that's by design right? >> absolutely. i think that. but her someone who's had is a republican. he's no doubt about it. it's also carved out a pretty good relationship. pretty good reputation inside the justice department both as a prosecuting attorney as a u.s. attorney i think this is someone who when he comes out with a finding essentially declining to we're for a prosecutor. it's going to be really hard for the republicans too. i think that's probably where it's going to go. but you need that independent me in this case unit, republican, independent, to be able to do that because right now it's just turning into a giant political dumpster fire. yeah. after the president, there's also on another subject, a feeding frenzy going on for a dive. icg as noon are tired yet. >> well, i mean, >> remember, it 4 years ago. kevin deleon, a challenge diet

right side for her senate seat that he actually won that in the top 2. i'm going into the general. it going into the general election and still lost, but it's not unprecedented, but it's certainly in the state of california with many, many democratic politicians who are, the term limits and more during what they're going to be doing next. you know, it's something where you have a lot vision and for a few offices. so i don't think this should this should be surprising. i think it's going to be interesting how many actually get in. you have now partly saying that he's going to announce adam schiff and sen first interest as well. i'm sure that's not even the last of it because we're really focusing katie porter are focusing more the california delegation. and i'm sure there are a lot more in the south that shift really interested in. take it take especially if at some point senator finds a way to say this is her last term. then everyone shoot down

the problem. but the democrats is that they have a lot of to defend in 2024. and having a lot of money. second to a race in california. it's not something that the democratic specially looking forward to because they have so many more seats defend their majority for the 2024 election. fascinating. >> all right, michael, thank you so much. we appreciate your time will be chatting with you again soon. thank you. stay dry. all right, right? yeah, we're trying, but that's one of the stories recovering right now. coming up, more on the rain. plus recent deaths from the storms because of trees falling over. all that coming up in just a minute.

>> 25 on the clock in the north bay, sonoma county. investigators believe the generator running inside of a home is what led to the deaths of 2 men. deputies say a tree trimming crew found the man dead inside of a house in sea ranch on wednesday night. they say the men were in separate bedrooms of the house. there was a generator in the hallway and according to the county sheriff, that generators power switch was still in the on position. but the fuel tank had run dry. detectives with the coroner's office now working identify the man that could from their cause of death. meantime, authorities say this is a warning again against running generators inside buildings because they can release harmful fumes that can result in carbon monoxide poisoning. and in the worst case, even death.

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>> 29 right now and it's back to the rain. we knew this is going to happen. that's why was to enjoy yesterday. yep. and we knew this was going to happen because john told us so he's going right on it all morning, right? again, john? yes, and did not government

doubt out there. so you have that break. was short-lived. kind of like we were something just flew across the camera or maybe that was your camera. a lot of cameras in here. it was the windshield wiper. so there's the exploratorium right here. yeah, it's wet. got a lot coming down right across san francisco, but also in other parts of the bay area. >> you can see those heavier pockets of rain fall up in the santa looking a little bit worried up there for those of you in the santa cruz mountains. we've got good rainfall in some really strong winds. you had no shortage of storm damage is and this is not the way you like to be waking up after all that for the east bay. it's mostly moderate showers right now. north bay. it's been coming down consistent, especially up around lake county. it's mostly moderate san francisco on up along the east bay shoreline, some heavier pockets over there in solano county from the late show up to fairfield vacaville yet to get it yet. you see those dark clouds on the horizon. and speaking of lake county, i do want to play special attention to you because it's been coming down hard for a couple

of hours. watch for a few swan, small streams up there. a few flooded areas to definitely something that is producing a lot of rain for you in santa cruz mountains. also coming down pretty heavy highway 9 there around felton. we've seen a lot of issues already and that is something that is coming down heavy. and it's also coming along with some strong winds push of heavy rain this morning. it does die dogn over the next couple of hours here we actually see a touch of sunshine towards the tail end of the morning. we'll still see pockets of heavier rain and there specially for the north bay. now towards the afternoon watching closely the skies because we could see some thunderstorm development between 04:05:06pm, some heavy downpours cloud to ground lightning with that. we're going hold off on flood watches for the day today. those will kick off tomorrow morning with get this even heavier rainfall around the corner. winds are very much so an issue, as i've mentioned happen, bay, we've had 40 to 50 miles per hour gusts for you. and temps right now are in the 40's and 50's. so it's cool. umbrellas, rain,

jackets, all the things you've been using so much so far this month. get him back out for today and the weekend rain. all right. bus those umbrellas back out, ok, we do have quite the delays across. >> our highways in the north bay, 101, accident in sausalito southbound south of donahue. so if you're traveling through there, lanes of block and things are going slow, but also along 80 this morning. so richmond, berkeley emeryville is going to take you some time. you can see 24 starting to pick up both on the westbound and eastbound side and traveling through the maze along 13, 5, 88, 80 at this hour. so traffic is typically pretty busy and 8 o'clock out not so much on a friday. so certainly slick conditions are slowing folks down 16 minutes into the city may so that fremont street exit still a 20 minute systemwide bark delay. remember, that means give yourself a lot more time. if you catch a bar today, 18 minutes, 80 to 101, with pretty low visibility via the san mateo bridge. a richmond, sandra fell bridge tolls to one on 8 minutes. you can see

the water on our land. so it's certainly coming down pretty heavy. if you live in the richmond area. well, the golden gate bridge got some fall. 37 to the tolls. 45 minutes with those gusty winds. was pretty backed up like i showed. you saw sleet on the north bay. so that's why you have that. 45 minute drive time again. take a time out there. no need to rush starring. james, back to you. thank you. and there are still trees falling and then with more rain keeps happening. yeah. they can cause in the worst case scenario deaths. and we've seen that a few times here. >> arborist, we've spoken to say they haven't seen anything like this in quite some time. so they're asking everybody be prepared as best they can. they've been working overtime, cleaning up trees and fallen over from past storms in here. you see in the video examples of what they're talking about. this was a tree that fell right in the middle solano avenue in albany. some residents say that they often fall without warning. and one expert that we spoke with says the storms are creating some pretty dangerous conditions for residents who live near around trees.

>> simply, it's all right. so the water, we need the water. we need the rain. so. what happens is all the water is saturating the okay. the root systems could not handle it. >> they're they're giving way. >> arborists say the best thing to do is to have your trees checked annually, especially if it's a big mixture and maybe you neglected tree and one you could see the past could go into, for example, your home or your car. >> you want to watch the where you're where you're parking. be be aware of that. >> and if you don't have an expert, you can also go and just kind of give it a look yourself. it's probably the wise thing to do. and he's they public works. crews are busy because they every time there's a storm, they haven't had a break yesterday, they had a little chance to try to potholes and that have nothing in discovery bay that had some potentially bigger holes open up. kron four's philippe djegal takes a look at there.

>> from 7 o'clock in the morning through the afternoon tending to one pothole after another contra costa county public works. crews identify is now that flood waters have washed off. the were eliminating hazards along our roadways to make them safe on thursday, this focused on bixler road in discovery bay. and manager chris lau says some of these potholes are new. others are old and expanded following the were using asphalt material called cut back >> it's a material that with rocked an oil filling a pothole compacting and rolling in this work is considered routine maintenance but operations pick up during the winter time when the rain weakens the roads. >> we were sending me for our roadways. is water and so water can infiltrate into our cracks and crevices in our payments and go down into the foundation of the road and cause softening of our base

and and one vehicles roll over it constantly pumps. that's the roadway. and each areas are >> lau says cutback is a temporary fix that should last through the winter season or longer. we're permanent repairs will be made when crews follow up. if you see a pothole. >> try to avoid them. they can cause damage to your vehicle. and so that's the best course of action is to try to avoid during the season. lau says hundreds, if not thousands of potholes will be repaired county in discovery bay, philippe djegal, all kron. 4 news. >> 8.36 right now and it seems weird that it's friday, the 13th and it could be your lucky friday because the mega millions jackpot is tonight 1.0, 3, 5 billion dollars. that's a big one. we've got kron four's. michael todd is standing by with more on the excitement, the buzz building in burlingame. hey, michael. >> yes, hey, good morning, everyone. actually, this gentleman's buying one right you think you're going to win?

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some non-jackpot prizes ranging from $2 winds all the way to 3 million. >> sorry, everyone. >> i can't really help but again tonight strong. it starts at 8 o'clock. the last time you can buy your ticket. it's 7.45. back out here live. that's a train that was ruining this shot. hopefully you guys get a good look at that. but also there's a live look at the rain. i know in the last hour you guys had asked me about so we've got rain, trains money hopefully coming this whole lot lance transit on thank you very much on that. we've got transportation. we we've got rain. that was strange. we have pla flight delays, all of it. if you're traveling by plane. yeah. a lot to talk about right now. john caltrain not delay and everything else you know what? it is definitely a day to take it. slow are out there. look at heavy so rain in spots from the santa cruz mountains around scotts valley on up towards san mateo. right now,

the showers are set to be dropping into the santa clara valley here soon. >> likely to lose a little intensity as they do so. but a

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>> a 44 and we're talking dine and dish or specifically what to wash it down with yes. how about the year with crawford's vicki liviakis taking us to a san francisco beer garden.

>> we'll come in to rod house, the bavarian style beer hall and restaurant in san francisco at fort mason where beer lovers rejoice is a slight oktoberfest every pretty much. it's pronounced right. house pitch in german means wheelhouse. >> but some might just call it red house because it's that rat. >> aaron, along with his twin brother, matt, are the owners with a thing for all things bavarian? this is a town in look bills. this is a smoked beer. our smoked patrons come for the beverages. the camaraderie and the fresh food. there's this hand-rolled, the german style chef michael is behind the house, made menu. it's traditional with a california it's cheese plate is funder ball. our home and truffle butter. brussels sprouts with alpine says are jaeger schnitzel with mushrooms

pretzel with haas made. must hurt. and don't forget the broad worst. i think we should name and brock best. >> the best >> there are 13 specialty beers to wash it all down and bavarian wines and >> and as they say, coast. in san francisco, vicki liviakis kron. 4 news. >> in the meantime, we'll just have to settle for some coffee. yeah, we get later in the day. i was just thinking, yeah, with the rain move in and suddenly on more in the mood for a hot toddy. there you probably a lot the niner game on we've got john keeping an eye on the forecast today. and first, the all important saturday, john, have anything warm and cozy all over break was short-lived yesterday. it's back to the lake that comfy pajamas and stand in this kind of weekend yeah. tomorrow niners game. i know a lot of people going to be heading out there for it. if

you are just make sure you've got that rain gear with you, south bay, looking at a little dark right now. there's some dark clouds pushing overhead for you. and we've got some pockets of heavy rain now entering the santa clara valley from on up in the santa cruz mountains right there from north to south. we've got those pockets of heavy rain, 2.81. 0, one. having seen some heavier showers this morning. so far you can see this line of showers stretches from the oregon border. well offshore of la. so very defined line pushing through. and we're right in the midst of it right now. this is just the storm door opening. just the start of what we are seeing through the weekend, which is going to be continued rain tomorrow. even heavier rain expected sunday. more of it monday. more of it too. but after that, it looks like we kind run out of energy here and we will see things phasing out this dream very, very wet trend. we've had finally she signs of coming to an end towards the middle of next week. so definitely nice to be seeing those changes ahead. we need dry weather at this point. those heavier showers

moving out this morning. even see some peeks of sunshine towards late morning early afternoon. this brings the chance of some thunderstorm development midday, but especially towards the evening commute between 04:05:06pm, today. watch for those pockets of rain and heavy rain and thunderstorms with them making their way right through that evening commute tonight could be a tricky one for some of us on into the evening things calm down before our heaviest of rain and most widespread rain gets here tomorrow morning. some downpours out there going to be a rough saturday morning to be out and about too terribly much rainfall ahead of us. and you are between 3 and 7 inches over the weekend and into early next week. this is all going to add up and flood watches go back into effect tomorrow for the entirety of the bay area. winter storm warnings going back into effect this afternoon for the entire sierra. we're going to see snow level falling over the weekend and 6 feet of fresh snow fall at the crest of this year is going to make it hard to dig out. if you're trying to head back to the bay

area by sunday 50's for your daytime highs today and we stay in the 50's through this forecast. chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. so keep an eye on the radar and stay with us here on kron because we'll keep you updated saturday sunday, monday, continuing to see rain. and then you see that pattern starting to break tuesday. just a slim chance of a sprinkle slightly more chance on wednesday. but still some sun and thursday looking dry and sunny reyna. all right, john, thank you for that. a few issues to tell you about because of rain moved in. >> and definitely you see a few accidents scattered here and there. so here in sausalito southbound 1, 1, south of donahue street, you have an accident there. 24 eastbound. that's and pleasant hill road in lafayette. and then a little further down in san leandro. southbound 8.80, right. just north we've got that graphic right over it. but anyways, if you're traveling along 8.80, or 5.80, you certainly seeing delays there along 85, 80 through richmond, emeryville and then san rafale all the way down to the north bay. seeing things

slowing down for you a bit. remember if you're taking bart 20 minutes systemwide delay. so if got to catch barton have to leave the house earlier. always a factor that into fits in our commute. like when i go to sfo on bart at 20 minutes to that 15 minutes into the city may so that fremont street exit our bridges like the san mateo bridge, not looking the best. you've got high winds, ear and low visibility. so 60 minutes, 80 to 1, 1, heading across towards the peninsula. pretty slick. richmond, sandra fell bridge 9 minutes tolls to 1, 1, there. you can see the water on the land. so it's coming down our golden gate bridge. he had a little fog. visibility is pretty low about 41 minutes. 37 to the tolls. tara james, back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. 50. the time in the city of antioch has canceled. it's martin luther king junior day of service this coming weekend because of the storms yesterday. mayor lamar thorpe instead declared a local state of emergency. he says the city has suffered an estimated

4 million dollars in damage to infrastructure because of these recent storms. and he thinks that cost will only go up. >> the oakland zoo is expected to stay closed until at least next month because of this and shy and sinkhole it initially said it was going to open this coming tuesday. but now they say the sinkhole repairs are going to take longer. zoo has been closed since new year's day. all the animals are safe. the zoo leaders also say they will announce their plans to explain extend glow farhi in the next few weeks because that was affected by this closure. brief break in the wet weather that we got yesterday was a great chance for people to try to recover and do all those repairing that you need to do as best they could force just in walton. >> actually had a chance to go down in santa clara county, talk with officials there who have an app that they hope will give you a little extra warning next time around. >> right around the corner. help people prepare.

>> santa clara county wants people to get emergency updates from alert. scc like a vaccine. this is a tool that works best when more people have access to it. the county kicked off a big push to get people signed up alert. sec comes in multiple languages and provides a critical safety information on power outages, road closures and mudslides. super super easy to sign up. it takes less than 3 minutes. this is event. this is art. >> commute to war. the alerts work to inform in any disaster from floods to fires. 2 earthquakes, emergencies are unpredictable. but the one thing we know for sure is that they will occur. >> they are occurring and they're going to continue occurring and in an emergency, timely, accurate information is absolutely critical. >> sign up in the app store later on kron 4 dot com and

then decide if they want a text. >> email or landline. call from alert s c c? >> i'm justine waldman. kron. 4 news. and we'll be right back.

>> welcome back. 8.55, and we're looking out there at a very active morning. those pockets of heavy rain working their way through san leandro right now, seeing a few of them as well right around

sonny bill mountain view and on up into the santa cruz mountains, lake county, all that rain that you've been seeing now working its way down on into calusa county just north of the bay area, but still very active out there for sure. our bridges are wet. richmond center fell golden gate bay bridge. they're all in the midst of some stronger winds, too. there's that heavier pocket nearing hayward as we speak. so definitely an active morning. and we're still looking at this line of showers. some of the energy sitting offshore only set to work its way inland as we do push through this morning. let's time it out for you. we do see an active morning. a few peeks of sunshine late morning into early afternoon. now this means a few rolls of thunder possible. you get that sunshine, reaching the ground. you start to see convection chance of storm building. so do not be surprised if you hear a few rolls of thunder nor pop-up thunderstorms in the north bay are right in the middle of the evening commute for the rest of the bay area. definitely an active day today, but this is merely the storm door opening back up because we've got a very wet weekend ahead of us. some of the heaviest of rainfall, as

you can see arriving tomorrow morning. stay with us. we've got plenty more in the 9 o'clock hour. keeping you updated. >> as this forecast develops.

>> they continue to see rain system after rain system come through california. >> yeah. right now it is and there's players on the team.

>> is local news station. you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at no. lots to cover. clearly we've got the storms and we've got the forty-niners we do and we got the lottery which are going to win on this friday. all coming together for the packed show for you here this hour. starting off with the all important forecast coming down. pretty good here. see the drops behind. in the last hour. yet the doors open again. we only closed for a day yesterday and i hope you enjoyed the break because the weekend is getting pretty wet. >> we are under some rainfall this morning. it's got the embarcadero wet, brelzy conditions out there along with it. >> some of us seeing heavier rainfall than others. let's get a look outside at the embarcadero and then a perspective on the radar here. and you can see that we do have quite a lot going on out there. i'm going to start right here in the east bay because we do have some heavier pockets now making their way are right on shore around hayward, down towards fremont on up through san lorenzo.