by caltrans, and your claim is for $10,000 or less, you can file your claim directly with caltrans. you have to get two repair estimates and then wait 45 days for processing. caltrans says each case is taken on a case-by-case basis and the damage from new potholes likely will not get covered. >> if somebody hit a pothole, say, 15 minutes after it developed, then, you know, that's certainly not our fault. but if it's been out there for most of the time, then that's another question. >> reporter: for lewis, he is in too much of a rush and filing a claim is too much trouble. he will let it go -- this time. >> we pray for rain. we need the water. and i say, this is one of the prices you have to pay for no long suffering with the drought. >> reporter: and so back in 2015, caltrans got about 4,000 claim requests. they approved about 10% of them. if you file a claim you can appeal but it will probably get into small claims court. kiet do, kpix 5. >>> a member of the ski patrol from squaw valley was killed this morning. it was an accident above the resort. investigators say 42-year-old man

by caltrans, and your claim is for $10,000 or less, you can file your claim directly with caltrans. you have to get two repair estimates and then wait 45 days for processing. caltrans says each claim is taken on a case-by-case basis and the damage from new potholes likely will not get covered. >> if somebody hit a pothole, say, 15 minutes after it developed, then, you know, that is certainly not our fault. but if it's been out there for most of the time, then that's another question. >> reporter: for lewis, he is in too much of a rush and filing a claim is too much trouble. he will let it go this time. >> we pray for rain. we need the water. and i said this is one of the prices to pay for at least the no longer suffering with the drought. >> reporter: back in 2015 caltrans received about 4,000 claims. they only approved about 10% of them. if you file a claim with caltrans and you get denied, you can appeal but it will likely end up in small claims court. in san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. >>> check out this mountain of debris. it's just some of the stuff that weekend storms brought into

this road is closed until further notice while caltrans works a solution. residents have seen this before. >> when that road up there closed, what went through your mind? >> fear. >> because dr. edward and his neighbors and even caltrans noted new slippage of highway 1 on the other side of town between mur beach and stinson beach. a closure there would leave only one lane of frank valley road in or out and this particular spot has been an unsolved source of contention for years. >> i think it's negligent because we're in big trouble if something happens. >> frank valley road may be the most overpopulated two-laner in california because it leads to the muir woods national monument. the county received $6 million in federal money to improve it and fix the break but so far it paid for a lot of talk between the national park service and county engineers. >> making sure it is safe as far as the actual environment it selves. like the land, trees, wildlife, creek bed. >> they can't just build a temporary bridge until they figure that out? >> i mean, unfortunately,

along the peninsula slowed to a crawl but for a good reason, caltrans cue crews were fixing potholes. >> it's like maneuvering an obstacle course. >> reporter: for those drivers that did not see it coming. >> i hit it and said, oh no. >> reporter: the freeway from oyster point south is one of the worst freeway in the area. heavy rain and loose soil creates portions of the road that are bumpy. we have to fix this stuff. >> someone is going to get hurt. there are some big potholes. >> reporter: today's timing was perfect. a break in the weather provides a needed dry spell and the temperatures are above 50 degrees, that allows the asphalt patches to stay in place. >> we are next to the bay, you are close to high water tables. it's natural that they are going to have a lot of problems there. >> reporter: caltrans advises drivers to slow down and watch other drivers, if they are veering to a vod an object, you should too. >> -- avoid an object, you should too. if you do damage to your vehicle by hitting a pothole you can file a claim with caltrans, go to our website, ktvu.com and check th

this road is closed until further notice while caltrans works a solution. residents have seen this before. >> when that road up there closed, what went through your mind? >> fear. >> because dr. edward and his neighbors and even caltrans noted new slippage of highway 1 on the other side of town between mur beach and stinson beach. a closure there would leave only one lane of frank valley road in or out and this particular spot has been an unsolved source of contention for years. >> i think it's negligent because we're in big trouble if something happens. >> frank valley road may be the most overpopulated two-laner in california because it leads to the muir woods national monument. the county received $6 million in federal money to improve it and fix the break but so far it paid for a lot of talk between the national park service and county engineers. >> making sure it is safe as far as the actual environment it selves. like the land, trees, wildlife, creek bed. >> they can't just build a temporary bridge until they figure that out? >> i mean, unfortunately,

you can hear caltrans crews. they ever out using front-end loaders trucks to clear the highway just north of vine hill road. this massive mudslide happened just about 3:00 this morning. the debris actually crashed into a news van that was drive along the highway at the time. thankfully the man behind the wheel of that van had only minor injuries. caltrans estimates about a thousand cubic yards of earth gave way this morning, and be moving all of it out of the way could take all day. caltrans has brought in front loaders, dump trucks, bulldozers, and moved the boulders, the tree stumps. right now, it's just the effort of trying to clear the little debris, and then pg&e can come in and assess their power lines. >> reporter: and just up the road, this is another mudslide blocking highway 35 near summit road. an huge tree you can see came down on to power lines as a result of this slide, and the roadway is shut down entirely. we spoke with larry, who lives a at nearby winery. he was trying to get home this morning, b

potholes are springing up and they are causing a lot of damage to cars, what is caltrans doing about this? we are out along the peninsula. jesse, you put the word out and asked where the potholes are? , got a lot of replies. >> reporter: i asked people to tweet me the worst potholes, the tweets are still coming, i will give you some examples. lets start on the 101 in the south bay, then moving north on the 101 in san mateo. terrible. now portions of 880 as it merges into san francisco. then the 580 and the 680. terrible. pothole city. i am getting tweets that say, all of east oakland, all of hayward. do not think that i have forgotten about the north bay. this is a lot. >> we have a lot of pothole issues out there. we are taking care of them as quickly as we can. >> reporter: the midday ride along the peninsula slowed to a crawl but for a good reason, they are fixing the poll holes. >> it's terrible. it's like maneuvering an obstacle course. >> reporter: for those drivers that did not see it coming. >> reporter: what goes through your mind when you hit it. >> oh, no. >> reporter: hea

the chp shut down both lanes of highway 1 caltrans moved in some heavy equipment. and they have been work on the cleanup all night long. this is one of many roadways at risk of mud slides this morning. >> oh you have to look at the composition of soil and then it's been saturated with heavy rains so it's just more increased likelihood of slipage. >> reporter: and between now and wednesday pacifica is expecting another inch and half of rain and according to roberta in mayof last year pacifica saw 5 inches of rain and geologists sent out the warning the potential for landslides was at a risky level. we could see the same thing happen here over the next couple days. and unfortunately, there are not a lot of ways around this area if you are trying to get to the north from pacifica. so, some people have been trying to go back to half-moon bay take 92 to 280. but that is obviously a real bear as well. so if you can avoid this area, pacifica, rain and -- raina del mar do it. >>> another mudslide to tell you about this time in the sierra. crews worked overnight to dig out

we've got pat with caltrans this morning. they're making pretty quick work of this, but what a mess. >> they're doing a pretty good job. we have the contractor in here at midnight, our crews were here before, but getting the contractor in here is a good job. >> take us back to 5:30 yesterday, when this thing came down. how did it all go down, really? >> all i heard on the radio that traffic was stopped up here at vista point, westbound. they came up and realized the road was shut down by the slide. the time we had it figured out, we had a power line figured out. we had to shut the eastbound side down. trying to get it mopped up >> reporter: trying to get a summation of what's going on with the mud slide. and an energized power line go down, probably brought that effort to a standstill. >> you betcha it did. we couldn't we couldn't even access the site until they had that shut down. they cut their cables and got them off our way so we could continue to do our job. >> reporter: and it's snowing up here, but yesterday was not th

talking about the tenderloin or all the others things that berkley was involved in with the mtc and caltrans and the federal government specifically the services roll in the program that will be led by susan thank you for your leadership throughout the program and this challenge and many other exciting things the secretary has led in his tenure specific to berkley's contributions in the granted we are excited we're push the research and the extent those par dims they'll change urban san francisco see is a city of innovation most of technologies the transportation all born no or in san francisco no better place than the city the second involvement of the university for the vision zero corridor that is an extremely important for public transit and more importantly the third is data electrics in the 151 impossible to see the systems that will be operated suv and no better place to do this than the other partners at the table here and uc berkley has the highest concentration of people in the world that as advanced dictated for a den benefit of translation we're excited about the future of smart

>> reporter: you can see what a big job this is for the caltrans crews. they have a front loader here but quickly added an excavator. they're trying to get both northbound lanes reopened as quickly as possible, but it's a big job. imagine coming along this road in the dark early this morning and suddenly the slide happens. that happened to one of our abc 7 news vans. the amount of destruction can be shocking. there was no warning. the abc 7 news photographer caught just a glimpse of the landslide as he was driving northbound on highway 17. in a split second, the news van was crushed by rocks, dirt and vegetation as seen in this shot by a chp officer. >> miracles happen every day. happens to be -- fortunately the slide didn't completely cover the van. >> it covered both of the northbound lanes just as the morning commute was about to start. the santa cruz mountains got pounded by sunday's level 4 storm on the abc 7 news storm impact scale. the heavy rainfall saturated the soil and made it unstable. the crews kept a watchful eye for more potential slides as

more video on twitter from caltrans shows intense wind was blowing up there on i-80. so much high winds that the summit is closed. caltrans says there's no estimated time for it to reopen. >>> carrie hall joining us now. more snow going that way. >> that's the problem. you've had this snow continuously coming down in the sierra with a lot of waves of rain moving through. we'll still see this in the forecast from tonight as well as all day today wrapping up on tuesday. here's a live look outside at san jose. everything is just sloppy wet. and looking outside at dublin, the drivers are making it through with standing water on the roadways, and you have that risk of hydroplaning. if you're driving too fast and you sit standing water, it's really cool out there, only 46 degrees. the rain has been off and on, in the north bay, getting a little more of a break around santa rosa. in marin county, rain moving in, continuing to move off north and east. san francisco, a light showers. the south bay is seeing the heaviest rain moving through morgan hill and gilroy. so you'll cat

the morning commute on west bound 580 this morning was brought to a stand still as caltrans crews shut down two lanes to fill potholes. >> it added an extra hour to my commute today. >> reporter: but you could argue hitting the potholes is worse than being delayed. this tire grave ward in livermore tells you all you need to know about the season we have had. >> a lot more blowouts and dent rims because of all the potholes and stuff. >> reporter: here's a closeup look at what your tires go through when they hit rough patches in the road. it's not just flat tires, this causes rim and alignment problems and grumpy drivers. >> they're really mad because they keep getting so many blowouts. i've had 15 customers in the last two weeks come in with bent rims, so they had to buy brand new rims. so yeah, they've been kind of mad about that. >> reporter: customers complain about this pass, which is due to be repaved soon. it takes quite a beating because of the truck traffic. this is the major east and west thoroughfare. add the rain, the weak road just caves. >> this has been one of the worst se

caltrans blames this on the recent rain and a ruptured underground pipe for causing the sinkhole. >>> spirited sanctuary takes care of farm animals that no one else wanted. now the ranch, located nearby ron highway, is struggling to

and some caltrans trucks partially submerged car before the road was closed. moving as second priority to getting the water level down >> reporter: on the shoulder of east on 37. 68 in. and batteries see their reflection caltrans lights the water is a few feet deep. until saturday. the close the connector ramp from highway 24 to highway 13. and now been filled the latest close says the big kids a chance to harden properly >> steve: 0813 around 5:00 this morning three cars suffered some images are missing: drivers now being rerouted and then all of a complete and finished tomorrows evenings commute. or can >> pam: 06 parties to be one of the places the j. r. joins us live in san francisco. >> j.r.:. directly behind me and then as ave. and then pick cabdriver for 14 years in the roads are bad shape right now especially after these recent rains. they are urging drivers to report to paul holes in their calling 311 are using the 311 at. and he says he's skeptical that statistic. >> pam: cherry and track the storm in the first to know but severe traffic weather and

or other means so with charging equal to what they're paying between two or $3 million and charging caltrans between 8 and 11 explores that and $26 we generate between 8 hundred plus million dollars that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, sir are there any questions from commissioners. >> are there any members of the public wyoming like to testify on this item? >> please come forward. >> we're in receipt of our communications. >> there they are quite a few of the issues i have them attached to the legal mandate on the legal mandate you have two the first one is the funds that basically means that must include the ability of the transbay and the east bay no two ways about it. the second legal mandate is properties 334 you need to have a non-stop train to translate in thirty minutes if you don't, you basically don't have access to any of the prop a bonds because if you look at this $557 million that is dtx but you see you can't achieve that figure and jeopardizes that you talk

we've seen caltrans crews and union pacific crews out here on the road. that road is going to be closed at 8:00 but you can expect another evaluation from caltrans and other crews as they come out here and try to make sure that this road is clear and safe for people to drive on. reporting live in fremont, matt keller. >> thank you. >>> up to 800 homes and sonoma county are being threatened by the rising russian river this morning and that river is expected to crest later on this morning. >> guerneville being hit particularly hard and check out the video, just how high this water was yesterday afternoon. sonoma county's emergency dispatch center received 19 calls from people who were trapped or stuck in the water. the russian river fire district rescued at least six people yesterday in guerneville alone. >>> more flooding this time in san francisco under 280. water pouring down from the interstate helped to flood the road. cars still tried to get through it. chp showed up there overnight to help direct people to go around the water. that is some deep water

caltrans has no date on when that will reopen. you can see this from the highway patrol, shows how much water is still in the lane there. caltrans crews are pumping the water out and one eastbound lane reopened on friday. >>> so we talked about i'm tracking fog. we have temperatures that are tlirting with freezing. now we have dublin, livermore, san ramon at 34, danville at 33, walnut creek and concord and also looks like presentwood at about 36 so there is some possibility of some bliegs in those areas. napa 35, not quite black ice yet but you're only a couple degrees away. novato 37, some of the warm spots, san jose and oakland at 40, san francisco 44, and pacifica is about 41. here's a look at from our exploratorium camera. today is going to be dry, foggy to hazy on the water today and also it's going to be foggy, so some caution for your commutes this morning. golden gate bridge, we have a northeast wind at 13, that's what's drawing in the fog from the central valley. right now it's not making its way to the golden gate bridge

this is something that caltrans posted on twitter. you see this worker getting blown around as he tries to talk into the camera. this was taken on i-80. the intense wind here blowing the snow. part of that camera shot taken over donner summit. high winds, snow drifts right there, i-80 over the summit is closed. caltrans says there's no estimated time to reopen at this point and you can see why. >> one fashion -- i just wanted to mention the cowboy hat with the caltrans logo, that's a very nice look. back to the topic we go with kari hull here to talk about the snow. >> we've got a lot going on here. that snow will continue for them. we will still have scattered showers across the bay area. we track the heaviest rain as it continues to move through. and this is what the roads look like now in san jose, very wet. and the good news is that we are not seeing a lot of people out there. now is just a good time to stay at home and watch tv. you're doing that now. as we get a look now at some of the storms that are continuing to move off to t

nbc bay area's tom jenison live on alameda creek with the family of that missing teenager says caltrans needs to make safety improvements to that road. tom? >> jada jenkins' father says this is a particularly dangerous curve, one that he says, quote, catches you off guard. and he said, definitely, caltrans needs to make improvements to that curve before another driver plunges into a fast-moving alameda creek. a vehicle recovery team pulled a car from alameda creek near fremont. the 27-year-old driver was able to swim to safety after he fell asleep and veered off the highway thursday morning. but 200 searchers continued to look for 18-year-old jada jenkins, a week after her car went into the creek in the same spot. half of them are friends and family members. >> we want to bring answers and closure, whatever it may be, we want to do whatever we need to do in this effort to bring their daughter home. >> jada's dad is holding out hope she's still alive. >> she always takes this road, pretty much. >> reporter: but jcj jenkins says the curve that jada and the other driver missed is a tricky

warning drivers of possible flooding at this particular area so caltrans officials warning drivers of tickets close tonight. >> reporter: road hazards become a concern. in cars become vulnerable to hydroplaning. on top of the heavy rain date wind speeds ridge 25 mi. an hour as an vallejo the tree uprooted by strong gusts on the corner of maple and concord >>: lot of tree branches down trend adulteries and and other debris out of the road. . " chauffeur employee is with all week and in light of the storm. >> j.r.: storm has left several masses to clean up several and sonoma county lost power tonight. >> reporter: road closures it down trees and power lines or than 20,000 people lost power due to the storm. shutdown for most of the day as pg&e crews that came crashing down this afternoon. driving is one of the biggest challenges they face during the storm. >> reporter: only became more difficult as. the sun went as. they kept people did about road closures and also running people stay off the roads if you can't. $10 and people and sonoma county were still in the dark. >> j.r.: implicati

caltrans says the repairs they're doing now are temporary. they need to wait for warmer weather before doing a more permanent fix and you can make it damage claim with caltrans if your car is damaged while going through one of thepotholes. just go to abc7news.com. we set up a link there where you can fill out a form and make that claim. reporting live in livermore, matt keller, abc7 news. >>> and new this morning, a new study shows san francisco is the state's most dangerous city for drivers. san bernardino and santa ana come in three, berkeley is number four. the t study focused on large cities, weighed factors like the number of crashes, hit and runs, percentage of young drivers as well to come up with that rating. >>> a busy highway for north bay drivers is going to be closed for a few more days at least. highway 37 between 101 and atherton and going to be closed until at least saturday and that is because of flooding. sky7 was over the area in novato yesterday. you can see how much water is blocking lanes. caltrans tried to pump it out bu

19th avenue and along the give me corridor and the eastern neighborhoods with the high speed rail and caltrans investments so this work with precede with our partners through the connect sf over the coming years and it gets wrapped up in - into the planned bay area we completed this preferred alternative work for last year prior pointing for the priorities and making sure that all the projects we are developing today, we'll be able to proceed at the ripening level next speaking of subways the first phase of major will be the bus - as well as the preferred alternative and sfmta will continue to with pits approval with the federal government as well to design and many, many years of planning detail design and implementation resulting in hopefully, a service by 2019 we we were also last year able to addressed regional planning together with the regional agencies at san mateo and mtc 24 refers to the idea of putting hov lane high occupancy lane to connect downtown san francisco with san jose to prioritize the high occupancy vehicles to do so in a way that allows us to also make sure we have reliab

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caltrans has reopened all lanes on southbound highway 13 after crews filled a giant sinkhole. abc 7 news was on highway 13 when workers applied new pavement along a 20 by 30 foot stretch of the freeway near highway 24. highway patrol officers nicknamed the sinkhole steve after it appeared yesterday. our recent wet weather has damaged other highways as well. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield on how potholes along one commute corridor are costing drivers big bucks. >> reporter: the morning commute on 580 this morning was prod to a stand still as caltrans crews shut down two lanes to fill potholes brought on by the recent rains. >> it added an extra hour essentially to my commute today. >> reporter: but you could argue hitting the potholes is worse than being delayed. this tire graveyard tells you all you need to know about the season we have had. >> a lot more blowouts and bent rims because of the potholes. there's been a lot more blowouts. >> reporter: here's a close-up look at what your tires go through when they hit rough patches in the road. it's not just flat tires, this a

caltrans moved in heavy equipment and have been working on it all night. there are not a lot of ways around highway 1 so this is beaming issue for the early morning commute. >> this is one bad location. there are no other side roads that you can go around it. so, that's why we are trying to work you know as quickly as possible. >> reporter: and this is one of many roadways at risk of mud slides this morning. all of the rain is saturated and then weak end the hillside all over the bay area. so crews hope to have this cleaned up by 6 in the morning. back out here live now in pacifica you can see one of many vehicles sort of waiting this out in the gas station parking lot. because the alternative right now is to drive all the way back down south to half-moon bay and take 92 to 280 and that's an extreme detour a lot of folks planning on hanging out here until they are able to at least open one lane of traffic which we hope will happen within the next 15 minutes. live in pacifica anne makovec. >>> it's been a rough few days for highway 17 between san jose and s

caltrans crews have been working two-12 hour shifts. crews will be back on their normal schedules this weekend. but they will have crews on stand by if any serious problems pop up. on wednesday we showed you this house in pacifica. off zamora drive. an 80- foot eucalyptus tree fell on the home nearly missing the people inside. amazingly no one was hurt. now, most of the tree has been removed. today the owners went in their house to gather some items. and they invited kron4's gabe slate to see first- hand. the damage it caused. they also showed him just how close that tree came to landing on them. >> gabe: and bigotry of covered it up. special >> britteny: close and dry and warmer conditions. and the storm system wednesday thursday possibly friday. until we get there closer look at the radar quiet conditions. and even really any clouds. cold conditions called air and the jet stream is well to the south lost allows a lot of the cold air to move on through. that's why we have black eyes the possibility. >> britteny: those of breezy tempera

caltrans says 37,000 vehicles crossed highway 37 on a typical day. tonight it is closed from highway 101 to atherton avenue. >> reporter: julie, if you take a look behind me, you can still see that high water here on highway 37. those three abandons vehicles, still out here, stranded by it that high water. the chp tells me it was the proverbial perfect storm that shut down highway 37. normally busy, flood waters have left it empty. from sky fox the damage is clear. the problem started with a report of water on the roadway. >> flooding started on the westbound side, and has now crept across. >> reporter: the chp shut it down between 101 -- statement, the king tide pushed water up from the san pablo bay. now, with more rain predicted, this flood water isn't going anywhere, anytime soon. >> there's nowhere for this water to go that's falling from the sky right now. our ground is saturated. it's not going to take much, especially tonight and tomorrow. >> reporter: 37 shut down, drivers are detouring to nearby atherton road. the two lane road packed with

talking about the tenderloin or all the others things that berkley was involved in with the mtc and caltrans and the federal government specifically the services roll in the program that will be led by susan thank you for your leadership throughout the program and this challenge and many other exciting things the secretary has led in his tenure specific to berkley's contributions in the granted we are excited we're push the research and the extent those par dims they'll change urban san francisco see is a city of innovation most of technologies the transportation all born no or in san francisco no better place than the city the second involvement of the university for the vision zero corridor that is an extremely important for public transit and more importantly the third is data electrics in the 151 impossible to see the systems that will be operated suv and no better place to do this than the other partners at the table here and uc berkley has the highest concentration of people in the world that as advanced dictated for a den benefit of translation we're excited about the future of smart

caltrans spokesperson says that it opened up monday morning. which means it should be in the but the heavy storms this winter experts have been warning now about avalanches. and should be known david and neil or on highway 89 when a gust of wind or and a huge pall of snow right on top of their car. to real call for help. firefighters looking out or able to dig them out with minimal damage and no one was hurt. chris however are worried about additional avalanches and snowfall. coming close to date no word on when the road will reopen. floodwaters washed away. and then the canyon and then a man in southern california and took advantage of the flooded streets. take >> pam: at lundy chicken see hetero the bat pull off his its. pastor delores bright/tornado survivor: "it's always been home to me and now it just don't seem the same." deadly tornados leveled homes. in georgia -- trees snapped and shattered. homes tossed and turned upside down.now piles of debris. buddy duke/adel mayor: "it's like you took a bomb and put it in a mobile home and explode

that's about it yeah. >> reporter: a very difficult night for the caltrans crews. they had to work two to three solid hours to clear that tree. they got one lane open about an hour ago. looks like both lanes are open. and finally for the time being this road is passable. reporting live in the santa cruz mountains along highway 17, len ramirez, kpix5. >> the flood watch for the area surrounding the san lorenzo river has just expired. people living near that river kept a close eye on conditions throughout the day. in some places the river was just feet from homes. >> people who died up here in these homes. so yeah we better be concerned. >> these are some of the most prone hit areas. >>> the santa cruz river also rose. at one point it spilled over to the guadalupe. most days the guadalupe is nothing but a dry trail. >>> the rain swollen merced. >> the maple lodge, just beyond that the merced river now exactly one foot above flood stage and rising. with steady rain continuing to fall on the valley tonight all eyes are on this stream flow shot. as of 7:00 the merced ri

caltrans just drove through here, but they're the only ones allowed to, the only ones who can. we're seeing necessary 3 to 4 feet of water here. the water is not going anywhere. it's filling up from different sources around highway 37. too much rain has flooded out highway 37 in novato for the second time in at least a week. dave nicholson from the marin county flood control district says this time the water is even higher. >> part of the problem is when you have three consecutive storms, the soils get so saturated it might as well be falling on concrete. >> reporter: cal france tried pumping the water out, but it's spilling back in just as fast from swollen novato creek. pretty much a losing battle? >> pretty much. >> reporter: one driver's car got stuck and they had to be rescued. >> i can't believe anybody did that. they've been to be regretting that decide. >> check out this shot from marin city. the exit ramp to sought lito, cut off completely. in sonoma county, this mudslide and downed trees are causen problems. summer home park road is closed in both direction, as they c

caltrans workers are out here. we asked them about when this happened and they said 10:30 last night is when the san pablo creek overflowed its banks and this state route highway started getting flooded. so you're taking a look right now, this is millerick road. this is usually a dirt road and you can't see. it's just water always far as you can see. i asked caltrans how deep this water was. you can see it's flowing at a pretty good clip. he said he wasn't about to go out and find out. it's deep enough for it to be dangerous in this area and that's why they've shut this down. this isn't the only road closure in the north bay. this is sonoma, but in novato northbound highway 101, the on ramp to highway their 7 -- highway 37 is also shut down because of flooding there. the north bay dealing with a lot of rain and flooding this morning, again highway 121 and state route 12 in sonoma. the sonoma creek has overnight its banks. -- has overflowed its banks. sonoma creek is about 150 yards west where we're standing, so wat

brad wood/caltrans: "if you're gonna leave late on sunday expect a long delay. be prepared, have a full tank of gas, warm clothes, and be patient." up next on kron four news weekend. a northern california restaurant in a tough spot. how a customer is claiming a rat walked near them while they were dining. the bizzare story next. for the weekend: it's the vibe launch party in concord. check out the food samples, and more. it's all happening at the hop grenade taproom and bottleshop from noon to 2:00. it's free to attend. >> marty: severe storms are causing chaos across the nation. a tornado near hattiesburg, mississippi killed at least four people this morning. emergency crews report significant injuries and massive damage in the area. back here at home, here's a look at the kron 4 radar. >> reporter: are next door system. and it by daybreak tomorrow another dose in the afternoon a possibility runs through that here really quick. live shot of the golden gate bridge and actual bricks happening on have the umbrella handy because it's in the forecast today. and then

to get ready for wednesday's storms, caltrans installed a temporary net to catch anything that might come down at the same location. that netting will stop boulders to the size of about a beach ball. anything bigger than that, good luck. >> if we have a major landslide like occurred last monday. there's very few systems that could be able to protect against that. >> reporter: caltrans says they are monitoring some flash floods up and down highway 17. there's been some preventive work. >> and from pacifica we're getting some idea of how long it will take to patch this sink hole. the 40-foot hole was carved after our recent storms. this is the second time the hole has opened up in a matter of months. public works estimates it will take six weeks to repair. >>> take a look at our high def doppler. you can see the storm is centered around eureka at the moment. but there's showers as high as ukiah and they're on their way. let's fast forward until tomorrow morning for your commute. it is going to be cloudy and then some showers in the north bay. that will start to move in. increasing in i

they say caltrans workers are on schedule right now. they're hoping to have this open by 7:00 a.m., which would be a relief for a lot of people who are trying to get from northbound 880 over to 680. reporting live from fremont, matt keller. >>> alexis smith is tracking ways to get around the mess. also a slew of other issues right now. >>> just a busy week in general. i'll take you back down there to where that closure is on our traffic maps. northbound 880 off ramp to mission boulevard, have not seen any big delays on northbound 880 and you can warren waf for an alternate or just south of there you can cut over early in the milpitas area at 237. however, just north of there, we do have a new crash and this is northbound 880 near mowry avenue, three vehicles involved, apparently at least one of those they're not going to be able to move without the help of a tow truck so that's blocking the right steph lane right now. highway 37 still extremely flooded and that is fully closed but mike nicco has some good news as far as the drought conc

caltrans just drove through here, but they're the only ones allowed to, the only ones who can. we're seeing necessary 3 to 4 feet of water here. the water is not going anywhere. it's filling up from different sources around highway 37. too much rain has flooded out highway 37 in novato for the second time in at least a week. dave nicholson from the marin county flood control district says this time the water is even higher. >> part of the problem is when you have three consecutive storms, the soils get so saturated it might as well be falling on concrete. >> reporter: cal france tried pumping the water out, but it's spilling back in just as fast from swollen novato creek. pretty much a losing battle? >> pretty much. >> reporter: one driver's car got stuck and they had to be rescued. >> i can't believe anybody did that. they've been to be regretting that decide. >> check out this shot from marin city. the exit ramp to sought lito, cut off completely. in sonoma county, this mudslide and downed trees are causen problems. summer home park road is closed in both direction, as they c

>> reporter: caltrans is trying to pump the water out, but it's spilling back in. for now, a losing battle. >> part of the problem is when you have three consecutive storms, the soils get so saturated it might as we be flowing on concrete. >>> the exit ramp to sausalito was cut off completely. in sonoma county, this mudslide and downed trees are causing problems for residents in forestville. summer home pashlg road is closed in beast directions as crews clean up the giant mess of rock and debris. the intersection of highway 12 and 121 in shellville looks more like a creek. no winery tasting today. down the road all quiet, because no one could get here. the routes are either blocked due to accumulated water or threatened to be closed, and that's seems to be a discouraging fact. >> reporter: the rain is falling against here in novato. that is causing more problems for highway 37. as you can plainly see, it is under water. chich estimates 3 to 4 feet of water. as with you pan to the right, you can see what the culprit is, besides novato creek, it's coming in from this

. >> reporter: caltrans tried pumping the water out but it's flooding back in just as fast. >> we're kind of pumping in circles right now. >> reporter: one driver's car got stuck in the flooding and they had to be rescued. >> i can't believe somebody did that. they have got to be regretting that decision. >> reporter: check out this shot from marin city were two lanes of southbound 101 were flood out. the exit ramp to sausalito cut off completely. in sonoma county this mudslide and downed trees are causing problems for residents in forestville. summer home park road is closed in both directions as crews clean up the giantr giant mess of rock and debris. the interintersection of highway 12 and 121 in shellville looks more like a lake. it's closed to traffic. runoff from sonoma creek is the culprit. no wane tasting today. this driveway impossible to travel and down the road quiet at anna belle winery because no one could get here. >> the routes are either blocked due to accumulated water or threaten to be closed. >> reporter: meantime the waiting game begins for the watering to down. i

or other means so with charging equal to what they're paying between two or $3 million and charging caltrans between 8 and 11 explores that and $26 we generate between 8 hundred plus million dollars that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, sir are there any questions from commissioners. >> are there any members of the public wyoming like to testify on this item? >> please come forward. >> we're in receipt of our communications. >> there they are quite a few of the issues i have them attached to the legal mandate on the legal mandate you have two the first one is the funds that basically means that must include the ability of the transbay and the east bay no two ways about it. the second legal mandate is properties 334 you need to have a non-stop train to translate in thirty minutes if you don't, you basically don't have access to any of the prop a bonds because if you look at this $557 million that is dtx but you see you can't achieve that figure and jeopardizes that you talk about - small business at some point has to ask the question

. >>> the donner summit caltrans working hard to keep the roads clear. extra crews getting rid of all that snow. but you know what? they are worried about drivers trying to make their way through donner pass. >> i'm worried about them not knowing what's going on. if i had five bucks for the person who said i had no idea there was mountains here, they have been here for many years. these are the sierras. there's always snow here. >> yeah. but now it's not snowing, it's rainfall. kpix 5's emily turner in south lake tahoe where flooding is a major concern there tonight. emily? >> reporter: we're just getting a brief break from the rain but, you know what? there is plenty more to come. and the state knows that. they have all 18 portions of the dams open which is the dam that the american river flowed through. it's not just the american concerned but the truckee river and its tributaries and then this in the neighborhoods where there have been feet of snow now covered with rain creating inches and inches of flooding and backups some of it going into people's

cal tra caltrans says this mud slide is about 15 feet tall. it covers the entire right lane of highway 1 near reyna delmar avenue in pacifica. you can see by the size of it, it will take a whole lot of time and heavy equipment to clean it up. drivers are having to take a detour all the way down in half moon bay. >> i just filled up with gas, i can make it. i've got to get to my starbucks. i'll see you guys later. >> reporter: northbound lanes are shut down for now, but we're being told that this area could open up as early as 5:30, so that is the good news, for now, as you see behind me, drivers are being diverted all the way down to half moon bay, highway 92, and take 280 up to san francisco. reporting live in pacifica, i'm sharon katsuda. >> so this is causing some schools to close. scho we've posted this list of closures on our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> at 5:07, a new video just into our news room. the great highway at san francisco is closed at several intersections. all of this because of flooding. several inches of water are covering

. >>> caltrans clue crews are busy continuing to repair a sinkhole that opened up which was caused by a drainage pipe that ran under the connector. a a chp officer trying to get people's attention started calling the sinkhole steve and has been getting updates on the sink was well. let for now only one lane open and as you can see, top caltrans hopes to finish repairs in time for this evening's commute. much of it does depend on how quickly the ground below the sinkhole does dry up. now to livermore where crews finished repairing a a giant pothole on interstate 580 and the westbound direction. all liens are back open but earlier a quick created quite a backup. caltrans says the problem across the bay area are worse than they seem because rainwater seeps into the asphalt creating fissures. >>and a problem on a normally busy commute. officials say that king tides as we predicted for the next few days could make the situation even worse. the chp says it can't estimate in the lanes will reopen. governor. brown has declared a state of emergency for most of california , because of damage ca

. >> these piles of snow once the streets, but tonight, thanks to caltrans, it had been cleared by 5:00 p.m. allowing bill's crews to concentrate on the current form of precipitation. rain. and all the issues it brings. >> we got all the snow, and once it starts raining hard, it's hard for the water to get off, because it turns the snow into slush, and plugs the drains. >> reporter: the rains began this morning in south lake tahoe, but the weekend is to teethes -- to see totals of a foot or more. rain called for chain restrictions and donner pass, and keeping crews clearing the roads. >> we got the plows out, and they pussed the snow to the side. the -- pushed the snow to the side. the blowers take everything from the right to the graders, we have full width? the employees for that 90-mile stretch of 80 as 80 swelled to 250. and in south lake, the number goes from 35 full-time, to 130. for the 80-mile stretch. 12 hours on, 12 hours off. with the weather heading this way, caltrans said they're going to need every single one of them. >> going to get rain, on top of this snow pack. it wi

the chp is hoping that caltrans will have it cleared by 4:00 or 5:00 on tuesday morning. cars are sharing the southbound lanes. tomorrow's commute will be rough. a huge crane is scoops mud and debris from the slide along highway 17 near scotts valley. it is creating a major headache for people who live in the santa cruz mountains and do business or work in san jose or the city. people are wondering how they are going to deal with the partial road closure. >> not go to san jose or take back roads. >> some of them are closed tonight throughout the santa cruz mountains. i don't know how long it's going to take before they can go to school or work. >> people are ignoring the signs and getting stuck in floodwaters and getting rescued by the fire department. >> that was unexpected and made me stay home instead of going to work. >> it was all the way up from my porch. >> even though there has been a break in the rain, people are watching the creeks. her boyfriend will have to improvise his way to work tomorrow. >> he works in menlo park and i can still get around quicker. he is

caltrans says travel has become difficult throughout the region. highway 89 has been reduced to one lane because of flooding. a third of california including the bay area, was completely out of the drought. this is the latest map from the u.s. drought monitor, the updated map will be released tomorrow and we're expecting to see increased improvement. >> we have live doppler 7 on the app. >>> a townhome went up in flames in san jose, four people were hurt, you're going to hear from a neighbor who called for help when she heard screams. >>> the first ever body camera footage warn by san francisco police is now public tonight. >>> how much more rain with the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels. plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. click, call or visit an xfinity store today to learn more. or, get started with this great offer. hey, ready foyeah. big meeting? >>uh, hello!? a meeting?

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if this caltrans closure goes long, we will make sure you know. kris sanchez, today in the bay. >> kris and mike will keep up on that. thank you so much, kris. people in guerneville continue to go recover after were last week's back-to-back storms. ing folks spending time cleaning up the mud and the debris. the community is preparing for more rain is and possibly more flooding. >>> it is 5:39. as we get a look at the expected river levels at the russian river/guerneville it is down to 16.36 feet. and it will be rising as we see more rain moving in for the weekend. by the end of the weekend, it looks to be just below flood stage. the last dry day before we start to see the clouds rolling in and the storm systems affecting the bay area. the rain moves in tomorrow, especially during the afternoon. the second storm moves in friday. the one after that moves in on sunday. during all of this, we could two and a half to five inches of rain on an already saturated ground. that will raise flood concerns. i'll have details on this coming up in 10 minutes. he

rapidamente caltrans llevo maquinaria para remover la tierra pero les tomo literalmente toda la noche hacerlo. 11 horas mas o menos estuvo cerrada la carretera al menos en direccion al norte.. pero con la ayuda de agentes policiacos estuvieron desviando el transito y alternando el pase de los autos. finalmente hasta esta todo pero se termino de limpiar estan las autoridades monitoreando esa area en caso que ocurriera otra situacion similar. de hecho cientificos del servicio geologico de los estados unidos estan trabajando para desarrollar un sistema que alerte sobre deslaves. sandra on cam pero otra preocupacion que hay en esta ciudad es el deslave del acantilado que se encuentra destras de este complejo de apartamentos.. take vo ustedes seguramente recuerdan que este complejo de 20 unidades que se ubican en el 310 de esplanade avenue fue catalogado como inseguro para vivir desde enero del 2016 pues la tierra sobre la que esta construido se esta cayendo.. la semana pasada la ciudad eligio al contratista que demolera la propiedad y quieren hacerlo cuanto antes pues con esta tormenta es