>> the bay area is in full cleanup mode today after yesterday's destructive and rare bomb cyclone. sadly, this storm claimed five lives across the bay area, all killed by falling trees or tree limbs. two people died in separate incidents in san francisco. a homeless man died when a tree fell on his tent in oakland and two others died in walnut creek and san mateo county when trees fell on top of cars. in the work, firefighters were able to extricate two people after a large eucalyptus fell on their car. they were able to use tools to free the driver whose legs were pinned by the weight of the tree. one of those victims was transported to the hospital. and on-duty san francisco police sergeant is fighting for his life after a tree came down on his car and brotherhood way. he was rushed to the hospital and his family is asking for well wishes and prayers. all across san francisco we saw

crews cleaning up the mess. it was an impressive 700 trees and limbs that toppled down during yesterday's storm. it wasn't just the trees. we are talking about pg&e crews scrambling to restore power to thousands of customers across the bay area. the gale force winds knocked down more powerlines, and for some frustrated residents of walnut creek this outage comes as they lost power for three days last week. >> it was deja vu all over again. very challenging. there were no lights or refrigeration or any way to take a shower because the water heater is electrically operated. no way to prepare food. the refrigerator, once again, the food is going to spoil. we were out of power for four days last week. i can't imagine what it was like for them.

>> so here is the latest power outage map. pg&e still working to restore nearly 65,000 customers' power. at the height of the storm, nearly 200,000 were in the dark. it was a much smoother commute across the bay today. not quite the case when the storm caused a huge mess on the bay bridge and shut down the bay ferry. our loren thomas is here now, and i know you spoke with a lot of people who were just hoping they would entice business to come here. what we saw yesterday didn't really help much, right? >> reporter: yeah, juliette, chaos is how many described it. the bay ferry was forced to cancel trips during peak commute hours, and it was paired with hours long backups on the bridge. commuters have few options to make it home. >> i'm not going to get on a boat right now.

he says that he is never seen conditions like he did tuesday, which prompted the ferry to stop service for hours. >> i can count on one hand the amount of times that i felt even slightly queasy. when i looked out at the bay, it felt like i was looking at the ocean. >> reporter: amid high winds, commuters became stranded leaving san francisco. the guests were strong enough to overturn a large semi truck on the bay bridge. emily loper at the bay area counsel says that incidents like this are also getting worse , as the number of commuters driving into the city is surpassing pre-pandemic levels. >> this is really affecting, you know, worker productivity and happiness. they are having to leave earlier to get to their jobs, and getting home later. they're spending less time working and less time with their families. >> reporter: one system that remained in operation was bart, but wasn't without flaws. many writers reported major

delays and extremely packed trains. others say that some trends bay trains stop short of their destinations to turn around and head back to san francisco. >> i was happy to see transit operators working together to get people home when fairies were canceled because of treacherous waves. bart prame and bus operators working together to get people back. >> is chaotic as it was, i ended up getting back about 20 minutes later than usual. >> reporter: people are advised

to determine alternate transportation routes. >> it is important that people have that emergency plan ready. all right, lauren, thank you. appreciate it. in san francisco, some autonomous cars had trouble navigating through the mess of a storm. today we saw a driverless waymo trying to get through a section of haight. and look at this. two waymo cars caught up in caution tape after a street closure due to downed union lines. crews issued a response, saying that because of the damage, some of our cars entered areas with downed trees or powerlines. some were able to proceed autonomously, but where needed, they dispatched teams to remove the vehicles. it is slow going through the altamont pass for the third day in a row. that is due to the far right

eastbound lane still close for repairs. that is because the supersaturated soil began sliding out from under the roadway on monday. crews are also working to repair a storm-damaged retaining wall. that could also take a while. and let's head to woodside. 30 homes under evacuation adviser is because of the threat of mudslides. the sheriff's department actually spent much of the morning going door to door ensuring everyone that they knew about the situation and had ample time to leave. the people who are affected live along patrol road in woodside. the sheriffs department is telling them to be ready to leave at a moments notice if necessary. you can see parts of the mudslide blocking the road before crews managed to clear it out. they are worried that it is not over. even more could come loose and cause more damage.

>> this will stay in effect the rest of the night. let's go to darren peck who will fill us in on what is in store for us. there is still a concern of slides. this storm was uniquely impactful. we lost five lives yesterday. the images coming in from the santa cruz mountains and people who have been there a long time, they say they have not seen this kind of impact from the santa cruz mountains. the storm had important elements for us to wrap our heads around. i think one of the images which drives the point home as much as any other, and sara donchey shot this on her iphone. she had to pull over to get a view of it. it was not so much the water splashing out of the embarcadero but the size of the waves.

let's look past that and see the size of the waves out there. the city engineer for the city of san francisco had some things to say. >> i would have to say the winds were of the historic nature. i have never seen the winds get kicked up so bad. >> reporter: the storm intensified rapidly. looked like the eye of a hurricane, but it wasn't. it was just a strong mid- latitude cyclone that intensified. if it looked like the eye of a hurricane, you could see that it looks like the eye of a hurricane. there was an opening here, and thank you to the viewer who cut that picture for us. you see that with tropical hurricanes and storms coming on shore. this wasn't one of those. but the speed with which it intensified to give this thing

an important boost with the wind. even though you could call it a bomb cyclone, the other term, which would have the biggest impact, was something called a sting jet. you have the central low here. look at the bands of deep purple right here getting pulled across the peninsula, the city, the east bay shoreline. when systems rapidly intensify like this one, sometimes they are able to pull down some of that energy from the highest levels of the atmosphere through a complex series of events, bringing that wind energy down to the ground. that is what we experienced yesterday. that is why we had some of the more unpleasant results. this was probably the most impactful storm that we have seen so far this year. i will be back with the forecast in bed. we turn our attention to the storm coming through next week. it does look like it will be more widespread rain. i will have more on that in a

bit. juliette, back to you. with this. several trees fell on the oakland zoo during the storm yesterday. one of them even fell on the newest aviary. none of the animals were injured, but six birds did fly out into the zoo. the zoo said that all six are still on zoo grounds and they are working around the clock to retrieve them. they say the birds pose no threat to the public or any other animals. another look at just how intense the winds was. it blew a couch off of a high- rise. here is a look at the aftermath. the battle between the city of alameda and food delivery drivers,

do to all the high winds, glass fell from several high- rise buildings in downtown san francisco. so our chopper found this broken window off of the

millennium tower today . look at that. there is plywood up there now, and that is that 301 mission street. also, a window was blown out in the financial district, the same building where a window was blown out last week. this was at 50 california street. luckily nobody was walking below. our supervisor says that he plans to introduce a measure to strengthen building codes and will hold a hearing to address why all of this happened. the wind was strong enough to rip off the tiles on this highway balcony, and that is not in the craziest part of this video. people who shot this video then can't, look at this. this was the moment that a couch flew through the air. >> account! a couch just flew! it almost hit that guy right

there! wow. now to some other headlines from around the bay. the city of san francisco is closer to providing a safe injection site for drug users after the city said that won't directly from the facility. a new resolution passed making it legal for officials to fund raise on behalf of private nonprofits who would operate the facility. san francisco supervisors in this scenario wanted to implement a scenario with a cap. this new ordinance that was just past would go into effect in 30 days and stay in effect for the next two years before the vote. uber eats actually threatened to stop doing business in alameda if this ordinance

passed. san francisco's homeless crisis is by far the biggest issue residents want solved, but the solution could take $1 billion. sara donchey joins us now to talk about $1 billion, which is actually a smaller estimate than what we saw last year? >> the board of supervisors wanted to put a price tag on how to end homelessness. when the board heard that it could take $1 billion over three years, it was skeptical. we should be able to do that starting at 11:00. if

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in southern california, officials confirmed that a tornado swept through the suburb of montebello. the swirling winds spit people scrambling for shelter. the strong wind tore off roots, toppled over big rig trailers and knocked out power for blocks. >> i saw what looked like a water spout kind of tornado twister that was about 30 feet wide that just came through and was just bouncing like a top in between picking up debris. whol

was coming down. >> so far, no reports of serious injuries, fortunately. everybody had their phones out and they were taking video of what happened just to explain and say, look. we really did see this. now darren peck is here to fill us in on what's ahead. so just to add some context to why yesterday was so deadly, it is the downed trees. what downed trees does require, is more explanation, because while the winds were certainly the culprit, the wind alone did not do this to us. we have to look at the big picture, and it can be easy to forget at this point. we were through a few years of significant rubber for this winter. one of the big stories was the amount of trees that were dying across the state. here at home we have had our

own unique circumstances to this. the amount of trees dying in the east bay hills through the peninsula, santa cruz mountains, all the places where we are seeing the greatest vulnerability, are not just from this storm but from several storms before this. downed trees have been the biggest impact. it is not just the storms themselves. it is the fact that the landscape was historically dry. we also had pathogens which were able to take advantage of that and kill large amounts of trees, which were just waiting. so it's a twofold story and it goes hand-in-hand with the notion of weather whiplash. we went through some of the driest conditions we have seen on record. we then stretched the trees here more than they had been on record since we can look back on it, at least as long as we have been here. then we went to a complete opposite end of the spectrum. it is those two things coming together which are leading to some of the most unfortunate impacts from this cycle of

storms. so that is an important layer there. okay. we still have when falling. you can see what is going on. if you look at first alert doppler, you can see rain showing up out there. it has been steady for the past several hours. we are looking at the last three hours on first alert doppler, and there is this group of showers right out here through the tri-valley. you see some of it developing down 680. this is about to come to a close. will see why when we look at futurecast and though showers moving on. okay. we get a break overnight, then tomorrow a weak cold front is going to grace through the north bay and then fall apart as it gets down the golden gate. that looks like a 10th of an inch of rain. the wind it doesn't get all that bad. it is a modest cold front. it is not a first alert day. we are not worried from a downed tree perspective from that one. and it is not going to be a flooding concern, either. it is almost an afterthought, but you will get light rain tomorrow from it.

the big story now which is where we are turning all of our attention is to the system developing for next week. you get the whole weekend off. we are not worried about rain or wind through sunday. but as we get through tuesday we can already kind of see some of the ingredients out here and to see what's going to happen on tuesday. we have to take it from where this stuff is on saturday. we will watch that link up with stuff from the golf and pull moisture in. then we have another storm on tuesday that is very well put together. we still have several days to go on this, but it looks like a storm that will give us widespread rain and the potential for strong wind. that is about as far as we can go with the forecast at this point, because it is too far out for details. but you can see that it could be as early as monday and i when it starts. the focus will be tuesday into wednesday. we are going to put all of our attention on this over the next several days. as the details become clear we will start resolving them more, but enjoy the weekend and we will get a much needed break. but we have got some more rain

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