we're not out of the woods. we expect these storms that continue at least through the 18th of this month. we expect a minimum three more of these atmospheric rivers from ktvu. fox two news. this is the fourte extensive storm damage along the santa cruz county coast this afternoon. we're homeowners and business owners, especially there in capitola are cleaning up and working to recover. that visit by the governor came as even more strong storms that california today. good afternoon , everyone i'm heather holmes alex savage. the governor today went to capitola and outlined the toll these storms are having on the entire state of california, including the loss of life. if you think floods and related weather this kind of weather conditions are bad. just remind you the last two years of wildfires. with all that attention. we've got less people

die in the last two years of major wildfires in california that have died since. new year's day. related to this weather in california. these conditions are serious and they're deadly. and that's why it's so important people take care of themselves and used in closing common sense as it relates. the governor confirmed today that a total of 17 people have died. as a result of these storms. the governor urged everyone to heed the warnings and instructions from authorities as well as from caltrans. a lot of roads have been washed out, and he says even more storms are headed our way and we know that is the case in san francisco hard at work on those cleanup efforts after yet another series of storms battered the city for much of the afternoon. san francisco, one of several cities under that flash flood warning ktvu christian captain joining us now live from near union square and christian. that's where a rain soaked tree today came crashing down right on top of them. uni bus yeah, we are at stockton's

and sutter. that intersection has been closed down since about noon. when that tree came down on that bus. if you take a look over here, you can see from our live report earlier at two o'clock, the difference that two hours have made a cruise have managed to take apart. cut up most of that tree. fortunately no one injured here at this incident, and it's just one of the hazards left. after this latest round of storms. more than a week of pouring rain and howling winds, is taking its toll on trees throughout san francisco. this large tree at the intersection of stockton and sutter came crashing down shortly after noon. tree just kind of collapsed on top of the power lines. lots of flashes. everything came down. frankovic says he immediately rushed to the bus, making sure no one was hurt running now because i was worried about people on the bus and the people on the cars over here but they all cleared out in the morning. this tree came crashing down on fell street, closing another of the city's major thoroughfares down for hours. neighbors say it came

down with a crash was laying down and i heard like a boom. like a we didn't know what was going on. but later on. i found out the tree filled pearson post yet another tree down this one coming down on top of a car. francisco department of public works. crews scrambled from one report of a down tree or branches to the next. we had 14 big trees, big limbs come down overnight since about three in the morning. all told, since this series of storms started, we've had more than 1000 3 incidents. so a tree crews have been extremely busy. in addition to the wind, this latest series of storms brought hail. thunder and downpours, the rain running down city streets and, in some cases, overwhelming catch basins , pedestrians found themselves picking their paths very carefully. you can see work still underway here at stockton and sutter, the city's public

works crews say that the storm since new years have brought down more than 1000 trees and branches. so far, cruiser having to triage reporting to the most serious incidents first, especially those which can endanger lives or block roads down trees or branches are not causing any hazards. residents can expect that it will take 2 to 4 weeks to clear those branches because those crews are simply so busy trying to scramble from one serious incident to the next. we're live in san francisco christian caftan, ktvu fox. two news storms, really putting a strain on those city crews. christian captain live in the city. thank you. people living in the small community of coral. eto's in santa cruz county have been cut off from their neighbors after heavy rain from the last storm washed away part of a key roadway. ktvu stop a reporter jesse gary joining us now live vin correlate those with the latest on this situation, jesse alexa, break in the weather get the sun out right now is allowing crews to make repairs to redwood road up in the mountains that will make it

easier for some of the residents there who may or may not have power to get in town and buy the essentials at the community store behind me. today a contractor bringing in truckloads of boulders to fill a large gap in the 100 block of redwood road, 20. ft by 20. ft section of the street collapsed when the supporting soil was weakened by the most recent storm upwards of nine homeowners in this isolated section of unincorporated santa cruz county are cut off, unable to use vehicles to travel miles long, serpentine path back into town. she was it that we have a lot of roads in santa cruz county to go up into the mountains and their one lane roads, and there's no outlet. and so if you live behind the situation on one of those roads, they get trapped. others are dealing with an area power outage that has pg and e

crews working to restore service while they live a camper's life. i got battery in my radio. listen to the radio. we have a propane. change gas for the store. so we had it really easy. the subcontractor working on the roadway says he'll have a temporary patch for residents to use by tomorrow afternoon and repaving of redwood road should be complete by next week. of course, this is all if mother nature cooperates, and she doesn't dump more rain on the santa cruz mountains are live in coral itto suggested. gary ktvu, fox two news. we'll head back to you. all right, jesse. thank you . and there is more in store for the bay area as more rain is expected throughout the week, meteorologist mark tamayo tracking this and mark we get that next system moving in tomorrow. what does this one look like? tomorrow looks like it will be focused up in the north bay could be talking about some moderate to heavy rainfall.

looks like a typical wintertime storm, as you would expect here in the bay area, but still it will produce significant downpours out there and something like to watch closely for your wednesday here is the radar imagery from today. this is for a midnight you can see probably were sleeping. or maybe the systems. maybe you have jolted you earlier this morning . this is during the one o'clock hour. the strong thunderstorms moving into san francisco out towards the coast and early this morning in one and two o'clock and then kind of shifting to the east, and we had some more development to the early portion of the afternoon. in fact, you see all those lightning strikes. this was after 12 o'clock. the lightning over san francisco with the reports of some hail, and it looks like right now, as you can see, we have some coverage up in portions of the north bay. now the flood warnings have been allowed to expire. so that's a nice little change for us, and the winds have been of a few have in hearing or bright, experienced very strong. sfo a peak gust nearly 70 miles an hour this morning, all these neighborhoods over 40 even over 50 miles an hour for the oakland hills rainfall totals. we had some very heavy downpours out. they're not lasting forward, you

know? 3 to 6 hours, but still enough to really accumulate and san francisco 1.21 inches, oakland over an ancient danville over an inch as well. but here is our live camera, some improving conditions right now, looking out toward our from our emeryville camera. still some lingering clouds, but as you can see, right now, the shower coverage has been on the decrease. here's our live radar sweep. we still have some thunderstorms to reporters. he can't see closer to a cloverdale. so it looks like up in northern sonoma county, part of sonoma county. we still have some instability leading to those thunderstorms. still some coverage out towards stockton and lodi. and then as we back out, the maps here will take this change with that, at least a shower activity really beginning to back off of this portion of the bay area from san jose to santa cruz to watson ville, but we have some more rain in the forecast for tomorrow. we'll talk more about that with your update in a few minutes. okay mark. thank you. well before the governor traveled to santa cruz county, he presented the state's new budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal here. the governor says that california is facing a budget deficit of $22.5 billion

. now, that is a sharp swing from last year's $98 billion surplus, the state still has about $35.6 billion in reserves. newsom says. despite the budget deficit, the government is going to follow through on its promises. regardless of this modest shortfall will continue to make unprecedented investments and transforming public education and higher education will get to that, in a moment dressing this homeless crisis straight on no cuts in that space housing affordability . continue the progress. we've made healthcare, no state in america doing more. the governor also mentioned public safety and climate change as key priorities . governor newsom says he plans to close the deficit gap by delaying spending in some areas and changing how others are funded. new figures show san jose's on housed population is not quite as big as initially thought. data collected from the city shows there were 6650

homeless people in 2022. that's a slight drop of roughly 100 people from when preliminary data was released in may. however the number of chronically homeless people in san jose does continue to grow in 2022, roughly 1900 people were living on the streets. that's about 500 more than were counted in 2019. park police say they busted a retail theft ring . officers arrested four people yesterday for allegedly stealing merchandise from a number of retailers. police say they were able to track them down at the big five sporting goods store on el camino real this after an employee at the safeway store across the street called police to report people clearing items off store shelves. police said they found stolen items in the suspect's car from home depot, cbs, petco and walgreens, as well as narcotics, drug paraphernalia and credit card skimming machines for those suspects are bay area residents in their thirties and forties.

coming up here on the four today a renewed focus on the handling of classified documents as the justice department investigates the discovery of several such documents at a private office that was previously used by president biden. plus the pounding rain storms and flooding damaging more homes. our meteorologist roberta gonzalez, is life force in the north bay with a

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missions up in the north bay. toppled trees have displaced some homeowners. there are meteorologists roberta gonzalez is life now in nevada with with more on the situation there, roberta heather. we arrived here about 8 30 this morning and when we arrived were explained that about an 80 ft cedar tree fell from that neighbor's yard on top of their next door, neighbors house and that tree weighed about £20,000. and you have to

imagine we've had a lot of rain here in the bay area. in fact, the city of san francisco has picked up six months worth of rain in the last two weeks. all right. let me explain that again. 13 inches of rain and the past two weeks and today was yet another rain fuel day here in the bay area, but it didn't stop there. the mighty atmospheric river winds have been destructive, knocking down this tree and nevado from one neighbor's house. on top of another next door neighbor's home. i spoke to the owner of this house and asked exactly what happened. my wife woke up. the winds were blowing really hard and right after she jumped up, it woke me up and within a second house got hit by the tree. marin county, there has been thunder and lightning and even pea sized hail the samra falcon al is near flood stage, with water rising with daily storm sweeping through in sausalito workers worked through

the lunch hour to shore up a sliding hillside cleaning up debris before making it to the roadside. and as adverse as the conditions are, there's always someone who doesn't let anything ruin his workout. so the rain has stopped is currently about 50 degrees here in nevada, but it feels a lot colder than that , because we actually have a little bit of blue sky and we have a bit of a wind making it feel like it's in the mid forties. i've been really impressed about how fast the cleanup has been. but then again, it's vincent say, 30 this morning. what's left is a lot of debris from the roofing of the house. a lot of cabling that workers have already boarded up the garage, which had two cars inside that were heavily damaged as well. and we have a generator out here because the residents have been without power all today because that mighty cedar tree took down the power as well . it's been a very long day for the residents here in nevada, but it's going to be a very long, nine days ahead for all of

us here in the bay area, with only to dry days in the forecast. reporting live from nevada. roberta gonzalez ktvu fox to take advantage of those breaks and do what we can with dealing with this damage. roberta appreciate it. mark is back now with another check on the storm system and mark you know, i was in san francisco earlier today. really surprised to see all of that hail, the thunderstorm quickly erupted how they're just offshore, quickly moving in, and as a result, we had the hail the strong winds into san francisco not only in san francisco but kind of trekking across the bay. you think about it? we have been introduced as so many different types of storms of coimbra week ago. we're talking about the bomb cyclone talking about atmospheric rivers. today some cold thunderstorms and then still some just some more rain in the forecast. several storms headed our way over the next several days. this was the radar imagery throughout the day. you can see a clear change, though, and that is the overall coverage of the rainfall. decreasing quite a bit. these are all of the storm reports throughout the

days you can't see around the bay area report of a 61 mile an hour wind in pacifica and alvarado looks like we have a wind gust there and also right around portion of the peninsula here flooding in redwood city, so they another commute this morning was such a challenge with all that standing water out there. take a look at some of these rainfall totals in the santa cruz mountains. of course, they picked up way too much rainfall with the recent atmospheric river. they could use a definitely a break from the rainfall. at least we're not reporting major amounts for today, about a quarter of an inch to a half an inch. at least if you want to look at a positive note, we're not talking about major rainfall. the santa cruz mountains here's our live camera, looking out from emeryville, where you can't see some breaks in the cloud. so we're really appreciate the brakes, the cloud cover and some breaks in the shower activity once again. here is the radar. we're not completely out of the woods just yet. in terms of thunderstorm activities you can't see up in the north bay. looks like we have some thunderstorms and lightning detected portions of sonoma county just right around cloverdale as well. in fact, it's kind of clear out this

lightning bolt here to show you some of the coverage here, so there is the coverage closer. approaching the highway one. oh, one. there's some of the impact here up in portions of sonoma county and then sliding the maps to the south here not as much activity to report this afternoon but still at least over the next couple of hours, one or two hours. even throughout the evening, the possibility of some scattered pop up showers, but we should not be talking about a major heavy downpours are more thunderstorms out there, but still at least we have that thunderstorm still up in the north bay. now here's the forecast model will enjoy the break of the short term. you can see what happens. this is tomorrow morning. seven o'clock. rainfall picking up could be light to a moderate and then into the afternoon hours. the heaviest rain will be focused up in the north bay. not so much activity for the south bay. this is three o'clock tomorrow afternoon and then into wednesday night. look at this. i will advance us into thursday and this is a day we can really appreciate finally a window or dry weather. potentially there's still a chance of an isolated shower. but on thursday that is a day to get outside. also, maybe try to clean things up, because as you have been hearing

quite a bit, we have more rain on the way for friday, and it's the weekend and beyond the weekend. we'll talk more about that with your full update in a few minutes. we will take advantage of this thursday. mark thank you, president biden met with his mexican and canadian counterparts on the final day of the north american leaders summit. president biden and first lady dr jill biden arrived at the national palace in mexico city, where they were greeted by mexico's president, andres manuel lopez obrador, canadian prime minister justin trudeau as well as their wives. the three leaders are meeting for a series of talks on trade, climate change and migration. together think we're achieving some really significant things today we're going to discuss how we can try to help stabilize. haiti how we can deal with migration and. at the same time, bolster our national security. alongside canadian prime minister justin trudeau. president biden said

the three leaders also discussed how to make north america more competitive in the global marketplace. in mexico, president biden was asked about the classified documents found in his private office at a think tank in washington. the president said he was surprised by the discovery but didn't ask what the papers were. the justice department is reviewing those documents from president biden's time as vice president. the papers were discovered when biden's personal attorneys were clearing out the offices at the penn biden center. the president kept an office there after he left the vice presidency in 2017 violence, attorneys say they immediately alerted the white house counsel's office who notify the national archives. and records administration, which then took custody of the documents. the next day, president biden was asked about the documents in mexico again and said that he was surprised that they were there. all right. joining us now to discuss this discovery is jessica levinson, law professor at loyola marymount university. professor always good to see you. we appreciate the time obviously,

you know, you look at this through a political lens. president biden facing a swift political backlash year, a lot of critics, seizing on this discovery at his former office after, of course, mr biden called former president trump irresponsible for keeping hundreds of classified documents at mara. lago help us understand. how are these two situations similar, and how are they different? so they're similar in that both stories involved either the name of a current or former president, and they involve the word classified documents. that's basically where the similarities and with respect to president biden, his attorney apparently found this, they immediately let the national archives no. the national archives came the next morning, and this story here is about cooperation. at least so far. maybe more facts come to light. but at this point, everything indicates that there's cooperation. compare this to the story. of former president trump where the reason that we heard about this at all is because the fbi had to get a subpoena to go in and get documents which they thought

were unlawfully taken. compare this as a story about obstruction where the former president was asked over and over again. we need these documents back. he declined to give those documents. ultimately it had to go to the really unprecedented level of against the fbi, executing a search warrant at the private residence of a former president, and when it comes to potential culpability here, at least for the facts so far, when it comes to president biden, there's nothing to indicate this rises to a level of criminal conduct what you need for criminal conduct. is intent or knowledge , and that's what we potentially see with former president trump . okay, but as they investigate this, the department of justice professor there are many years that have now passed so described the difficulties in creating a timeline, starting with who put the documents in the office and who had access to them. i think that's exactly right. that's a great question. so the people investigating this with respect to president biden

are going to have to ask. could he have these documents at all? where these documents to which he was entitled? how did they end up in this place where they were not supposed to be? they should have been with excuse me the national archives and then pardon me. was he ever asked to give them over right now? it indicates that he was not. i'm sorry. i do you need you need a moment. jessica are you? are you okay to think i do. okay what? why don't we won't we put a pause on the conversation. and uh, we know how that goes, we've had here there's a lot of colds and viruses can floating around. what will give you a moment to recover here, and if we have time we can circle back with you. we appreciate the time jessica levinson from loyola marymount university. thank you for coming on. all of the recent rainfall. we've had still not making much of a difference with california's drought situation coming up, we'll talk live with the climate scientists who is pushing a new approach to try to capture more rain water.

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but all of that heavy rain has only made a modest dent in california's drought and some climate scientists are suggesting we need a new approach to try to capture more of this rainfall and to truly address are prolonged drought conditions in this state for more. we're joined now by dr peter glick, the co founder and president emeritus of the pacific institute based in oakland. we appreciate you taking the time. thank you so much for doing it. you believe that california should should move levees back. back from our rivers to allow more room for them to flood into the surrounding land. how do we stand to benefit from that? i do think that's one of the things we need to do. you know, we've spent a lot of time and money building big reservoirs for flood control that provide a lot of protection for us. we build levees along our rivers to

protect the land adjacent to them in the floodplains. but the reality is that big floods are inevitable for california, especially with climate change. but we know there's a long history of possible floods in california. and if we were to set the levees back a little bit move some of those developments away from those risky areas. we can reduce flood risks, but we also have the possibility of recharging more of the groundwater that we're also using letting that water that was floodwaters soak into the ground and refill our over tapped aquifers. refilling those aquifers is the key here. how much more usable water do you believe we could capture? if we took this approach, and we moved back the levees oh, potentially , we could capture billions and billions of gallons. it depends. of course, we have to capture that water during the wet years. and of course, as you know, we haven't had many wet years recently. it also depends on how much land were willing to devote to restoring these kinds of floodplains. but there's also

active aquifer recharge, we can actually pump water under certain conditions back down into these aquifers. it all depends on the kinds of commitments we're willing to make to relocate some of the riskiest properties and to move aggressively toward aquifer recharge. and of course, there in lies the rub here. obviously, you have to be able to relocate people who live along a lot of these waterways here. that's of course, the easier said than done. how do you how do you imagine if we start going down this path? how do we overcome that challenge of relocating people who in many cases have lived in these communities for a long time? that's right. that is that is the big challenge and there are two things we need to do. first of all, we need to develop policies so that we're not building new things in these areas that we know are ultimately vulnerable to flooding. the second thing is over time with flood insurance policies with different planning kinds of policies, we can slowly do what's called managed retreat. home gets damaged by a flood. let's pay that insurance but under the conditions that

they don't rebuild in the same risky areas and over time as we implement these policies, people can be moved away from these really risky flood areas, and we can restore some of these floodplains. it's a hard thing to do, but the alternative is we just keep flooding more and more that the damages accrue over time places that flood flood again. that's not a future we really want. no certainly not, and we see the same communities flood. thing. time after time after time really appreciate your perspective today, dr peter glick from the pacific institute here in oakland. thank you for coming on. my pleasure. an old criminal record can derail a person's employment opportunities for several years . but a new law here in california will automatically seal those records for more than a million people and the man leading this campaign will join us live coming up to talk about the fresh start that this bill will provide us the back and forth. it continues in congress as republicans layout their rules package. and democrats

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7 31 do? thanks for having me so senate bill 7 31 expands eligibility for expungement, um so prior to 7 31 passing people who've been to prison weren't eligible to expunge their record and all expungement means in california is that you can get certain jobs and certain housing opportunities. and so you imagine the millions of people that float through our prison system when they get out. and they are trying to find jobs. you're trying to find a place to live. they get denied. and this um, this, uh, reality increases recidivism decreases public safety as family stability and overall just not good for the economy, and so 731 takes into account all of that, and it allows people um those without sex offenses who have been out, um more than two years have discharged parole is on parole for two years with no additional

offenses. are able to expunge the record and it's not a get out of jail free card. they still have to go in front of a court in front of a judge and petition the court and, um if the judge deems them rehabilitated, they get a chance to expunge the record and they can apply for jobs and housing and everything else. you explained some of the barriers that this law will remove what criminal records, though, will not be sealed here. yes so anything that has to do with a register register ball offense, so if you have any crime against a child rape, child molestation . anything of that nature is not eligible for expungement under under 731 you touched upon a criminal record can trigger nearly 5000 legal restrictions here in california. you mentioned employment opportunities, housing opportunities. what does this now say? or do for those folks? in in overcoming those barriers. was transformative. um just

imagine you were a kid when you got a record, and you know you're 18 years old, and now you're 40 years old and you have a family. you know you're trying to get back on your feet and you're getting denied job after job. you're trying to find a stable housing and you're getting denied house after house. uh, 7 31 can actually allow you to rip up an apartment. um in your name for the first time, right can allow people to fulfill that american dream could you know become, you know, uh, get their bachelor's degrees. get their master's degrees. go and become, you know, welders and open up their own businesses, and just the possibilities are endless. now are a lot of people who have just been shut out from the mainstream economy. this is about jobs. it's about public safety. this is about families about community, and it's long overdue. in california is the first state the nation to do it, and so we're excited to see the rip the benefits of such expansive and, um, well thought

out law for a moment here, let's talk about some of the criticism. we don't have a whole lot of time left. but critics out there who argue there are consequences. for criminal behavior. yeah and so there are consequences and expungement is , um, available after you serve your time, so the consequences is, you know, prison time, so people serve their time in prison. they paid the restitution and they are crime three for over two years, expungement says. now you can get a job. so for the critics that don't want people to get a job or don't want people. to get into a stable housing. i just don't agree with that. right people want people to work. you want people to have their own place of living. they don't live under a bridge, and they're not begging for money or not, you know, trying to rob a store. they are actually paying tax dollars. and so that's what this is about. it's about, you know, improving public safety through allowing people to take care of themselves and their families. alright jay jordan as we mentioned those first petitions looking to be applied very soon.

thanks again for your time, sir. thanks for having me. california congresswoman katie porter has announced her run for senate in 2024 porter took to twitter today, saying in part quote california needs a warrior in the senate to stand up to special interests and hold so called leaders like mitch mcconnell accountable for rigging. our democracy congresswoman who represents much of orange county says she's running for the senate seat. that is currently occupied by senator dianne feinstein. feinstein is not yet officially announced any plans to run again or to retire. house republicans passed a rules package last night that they began organizing their agenda as they begin to organize their agenda among their top issues investigating the origins of covid-19 told it was, you know, some bad biting a cat and the cat bit that some guy in the wet market in wuhan and now scientists are looking at it saying, that's probably not what happened. what happened? democratic leaders are calling out republicans for that

rules package, which includes cutting the office of government ethics. so over time, this office could shrink to nothing. and why do republicans want to do that? or they want to stop investigations into themselves? and we see that again with what's going to be voted on today. the gop also repealed funding for more than 80,000 new irs agents. stocks moved higher today on wall street. traders have been seeing some signs that inflation may be cooling enough to convince the federal reserve to ease up on interest rate hikes. the dow was up 186 points today, the nasdaq gained 100 and six and the s and p. added 27 points matter is now removing gender as an option for advertisers to target teens on both facebook and instagram. user activity on those two platforms will also no longer be used to tailor ads for teeth. so, for example, engagement on certain instagram post or facebook pages will no longer

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cases on by a new omicron sub variant. that's even more contagious than previous versions of the virus. this sub variant is known officially as ex bb 0.1 point five, and it's likely already one of the most prominent sub variants spreading right now in the united states. so let's talk more about it with dr john schwartzberg and infectious disease specialist at the uc berkeley school of public health. so thank you so much

doctor for being here. what are the concerns surrounding this new sub variant? the major concerns surrounding it is that it seems to be able to infect people with greater facility. it's able to sort of attached better to the what we call the ace, two receptors receptors in our nose and throat and airways. that the virus can attach to and then get into ourselves and multiply. so that's the big problem with this. it also has a property from its parent, which was called x bb, and that is that it's a little more immune invasive. it's a little better at evading the immunity. that we get from either vaccination or from previous infection. what is it about these mutations that is allowing this sub variant to sort of get around our body's antibodies, whether they're from the vaccines or prior infections. yeah it's well, it's what you'd expect. this virus is trying to do what other life forms try to do, and that is to survive. and the only way it can

do that is to find a host that it can multiply it. and if that host is immune to it, it's a dead end for that virus unless it could figure out a way to get around that immunity, and that's what we're seeing with xp. be 0.1 point five sounds like you were seeing what you expect that there really isn't anything surprising or out of the ordinary with the sub variant. yeah you know, remember back to early december, december, 1st actually win oma crime first came to our shore's and december 1st of 2021. what a catastrophe that was for the rest of december, january and seven february well xp be 0.1 point. 15 is nothing like that. this is a, um in the same family as home a crime, so it's an omicron derivative. um it does have properties that are, of course concerning, but it's nothing like what we went through a year ago with omicron. do we have data yet suggesting whether this sub variant causes more more

severe cases of covid less severe cases of covid. do we know we do have data. i'd like to have a lot more. but we do have pretty good data. and the good news there is that it seems to cause roughly the same level of illness that all of the omicron sub variance of caused. people can just get infected without getting sick at all. they can get a mild cold. they can get pretty sick but not need hospitalizations and some people . fortunately not a lot, but some people wind up in the hospital and tragically, some people die. we're still seeing a high number of deaths, not just from this particular one, but all of these crimes sub variants this year. if we continue at the pace we're at. we're going to talk about 120,000. roughly americans that will die. alright as we've learned throughout the last couple of years, things are over. always changing with covid-19 really appreciate your time this afternoon, doctor. thank you. you're welcome. thank you in the world health organization is urging passengers to wear masks on long haul flights. because of that

new, highly contagious variant we just talked about the agency says masks should be worn on those long flights as well as in crowded areas. experts say the new variant is among the factors in a surge in cases in china right now. that's prompting more than a dozen countries to impose new testing requirements for travelers who are departing from china. but a barrier weather really get to know we each type of sorts storm system out there, right members just on monday. we're talking about an atmospheric river and then behind that atmospheric river, of course, here, the cold unstable there and that moved in today, producing the thunderstorms, so the active pattern in the pacific continues and a lot of that energy being directed towards the bay area. so kind of just put this together to indicate more rain. in our forecast for wednesday, friday into the weekend to be honest in early next week, it's still a bit fuzzy here from monday and tuesday, but it's something to be watching into the next week, and sometime in the next week, we could be talking about a dry break right now. it looks like the least maybe by thursday. the 19th

maybe before that point as well, but until then, right now we're talking about some showers and some thunderstorms. in fact, up in the north bay. we saw some thunderstorms showing up. up in portions of the sonoma county. so approaching healdsburg right now, right around one on one near cloverdale. this thunderstorms and lightning detected for this portion of the region. it was earlier about an hour ago, right around granville and kind of moving to the east. as you can't see with that progression. here is the radar imagery right now in the central portion of the bay, not as much activity and then out toward the east bay out toward the livermore valley, still talking about some downpours. as you can pick out on the radar imagery and then back in the maps out nice to see some breaks in the coverage. still, a few lingering showers possible closer to morgan hill, but down the santa cruz county much better, improving conditions this afternoon. here is our live camera from the south bay. it's hard to believe with all the stormy weather today, we could actually see a little bit of some sunshine and that's what we have this evening. with our sunset. now another system is approaching the region. for

tomorrow. the headline will be it's going to be heaviest up in the north bay, especially for the coastal hills winds could be around 20 to 30 miles an hour and rainfall. there's that eventual range about 2/10 of an inch to over over two inches as far as thunderstorm chances, probably not the case with this guy that although there's always a chance, but it looks like the pattern really not too favorable for widespread thunderstorm activity. showing you the rainfall numbers here, not as much action in the south best. that's a nice change here up in the north bay once again this for wednesday and a half to just over two inches and the coastal hills could be approaching the two to a 2.5 inches. here is the forecast models who put this into motion. of course, we're still trying to clear out the showers and thunderstorms right now. and then here's our next system coming onboard as we put this into motion, and you'll notice the bulk of the activity focused up to the north, not as much action for the south for san jose, morgan hill and gil royce does some rain showers in the forecast, but clearly you can see the yellows and the oranges showing up up in marin county, sonoma county, napa county and mendocino county. this is four o'clock tomorrow

afternoon and then into tomorrow night, i think you might like what could be developing a break setting up by wednesday night and into thursday. in fact, look at this thursday forecast. we are just showing you some clouds kind of moving across the bay area is partly to mostly cloudy skies. it looks like some rain probably not heavy, but it's still it's still back in the forecast into your friday take a look at the numbers for tomorrow, mainly in the fifties. once again the focus of the rain up in the northern half of the bay area, not so much for the south pay for san jose, morgan hill and gilroy, but plenty more rain to talk about in this five day forecast. here is your five days you can't see thursday. this is almost jumping off the map here. you want to kind of embrace this this this symbol here on thursday. with mostly cloudy skies, rain returns on friday off and on rain likely to saturday. this could be moderate to heavy and still some lingering showers and a sunday it looks like those rain chances will continue into next week. but each day we're getting one step closer to that pattern change that will bring in more significant drying, and that should be happening next week, but finally a full break day for

us coming this week. we'll certainly take that. mark thank you. new data shows the impact of climate change may be worse than previously thought. his glaciers continue to disappear faster than expected.

scientists predicted as foxes jackie avandia shows us the melting ice is helping to fuel rising sea levels and increase the risk of floods. beautiful and captivating. the world's glaciers are a sight to behold. but a new study published in the journal science reveals these natural wonders are disappearing faster than researchers. originally thought, was scientists now estimating two thirds of the earth's glaciers will vanish by the end of the century, there being lost in response to climate change. the data applies to 215,000 land based glaciers. what we found

was that a lot of the small glaciers they're simply not large enough, and they're in locations that do not allow them to survive. these increases in temperature. but while climate activists call for industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to help curb spiking temperatures, new york native garett fisher is on a mission to photograph these stunning masses of ice so future generations can see what was destroyed. i use old small aircraft. to fly to all the remaining glaciers that are not in the polar regions using a restored single engine plane from 1965. fisher is able to get up close and personal to each glacier photographing with old aircraft fly slowly and intimately allows a view that is almost questionably to the viewer may not even appear aerial. it's very personal and relatable as a human when it comes to fishers mission while

his plan is powered by gas, he says, the offsets his carbon footprint by driving a hybrid car. and powering his home with hydraulic energy. jackie ibanez , fox news fed chair jerome powell may have ruffled some feathers today during a much anticipated speech in sweden. pal spoke at a conference today helped by sweden's central bank , he said the central bank must keep its independence from politics and steer clear from issues like climate change, but without explicit congressional legislation. it would be inappropriate for us to use our monetary policy or supervisory tools, for example, to promote a greener economy. or to achieve other climate based goals. we are not and we will not be climate policy maker. there was no mention of whether the fed plans to raise interest rates any higher this year by pal did say that stabilizing prices requires making tough decisions that can be politically unpopular. richard branson's virgin orbit today suffered a

failed rocket launch. this was supposed to be the company's first space launch. from british soil, but the company tweeted saying and anomaly stood in the way of the final destination. the ceo says the team did everything right and that they're trying to figure out what went wrong. bridget orbit was founded by richard branson back in 2017 to launch satellites as a commercial service. egg prices on the rise . of course, that's if you can find them more on the supply shortage, leaving shoppers scrambling.

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that's amazing doc. -doc? i click, call or visit a! store today. the last time you shop for a dozen eggs. in some cases, prices are triple double or even triple what they were just a few months ago. a lot of people experiencing that, and that is if the grocery store even has any eggs to sell foxes, stephanie bennett explains. what's behind

somewhat. sumption has grown over the years as many people are eating them as their main protein source, but the production has slumped because of the ongoing bird or avian flu epidemic. hickman says their farms and arizona are doing okay . but others aren't so lucky. lucky here in arizona. we did lose an organic flock at r colorado facility over the last year, the usda says nearly 58 million birds have been infected in the us making it the deadliest outbreak in u. s history. unfortunately the infected birds have to be killed , causing the egg supplies to fall and prices to surge. in some cases, stores are running out and limiting the amount people can buy eggs earlier this week here at fries and levin, we paid 8 99 for a dozen eggs. and so we've definitely scaled back how many eggs were consuming. um but it definitely hits us in the

pocketbook, although the price may be frustrating, hickman says the eggs are still great quality is out there that the egg supply is very, very safe. there's no there's no transmission of avian flu to people or anything like that. so it's just kind of fluke that this happened. you know this happened about seven years ago. and it seems like it's come back with a vengeance this time. ktvu fox two news at five starts now. no. tree just kind of collapsed on top of the power lines. lots of flashes. everything came down. now at five toppled trees and wires down tonight, two of the biggest issues across the storm ravaged san francisco bay area. the latest storm, swamping roadways , battering coastlines and turning creeks into russian rivers, and in some cases, rivers rolling right over the bank's good evening, everyone and mike mibach julie julie haener, we have been getting heavy rain, but this afternoon, the skies opened up with a quick burst of hail. stay

in your car. hail lashing union street in san francisco this afternoon parts of the north bay and east bay also hit with severe weather on the left sausalito and on the right shows you what it looks like outside our studios in oakland. that was trafficking. and right there. you could hear the thunder. i had some thunder at my house in the north bay viewer, daniel harry capturing this moment when lightning struck sutro tower in the city. today there were reports of dozens of strikes in san francisco and other cities. we do have live storm team coverage for you, greg lee in santa cruz county, where the governor provided the latest update on the state's response to the storm, including the rising death toll, christian captain. they're standing by in the city, where there were plenty of down trees and outages, chief meteorologist bill martin kicking us off here and bill flash flood warning for the city. is that expired? yes