SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Federal Disaster Aid Approved For California Biden approved federal disaster aid for California's storms; BART delays, flooding, downed trees, and more were impacting this morning's commute around the Bay; and NOAA's hurricane hunters are now out studying atmospheric rivers over the Pacific.
SF News Central Subway to Actually Begin Functioning as T-Line Starting Saturday Yes, the time has come. Saturday is the day that the Central Subway will see its first day of full, integrated operation with the rest of the Muni underground system — and we're taking bets about how smoothly/terribly this will go.
SF News Rainy Saturday Will Be a Mild Preview of More Storms to Come Next Week While there isn't another bomb cyclone on the horizon for now, two more atmospheric river storms are headed our way next week, with a bit more Pineapple Express downpour starting Saturday.
SF News SFPD: Woman Admitted to Killing Her Two Daughters In Hunters Point Home More tragic details have now come out in court documents about the case against Paulesha Green-Pulliam, who pleaded not guilty last week to the double-murder of her young daughters two days before Christmas.
SF News Evacuation Warnings Issued For Russian River Valley Ahead of Likely Weekend Flooding The entire Bay Area is once again under a Flood Watch starting on Saturday, as two more storm systems head into the region, and low-lying areas along the Russian River are now under evacuation warnings.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Just Saw Its Wettest 10 Days In 150 Years The SFPD just announced the arrest of a serial commercial burglary suspect, the residents of Capitola are still without power, and the last 10 days are officially the second-wettest ever recorded in downtown San Francisco.
SF News Walgreens CEO Says 'Maybe We Cried Too Much' About Shoplifting, Acknowledges Private Security Didn't Work The CEO of Walgreens now says that shoplifting seems to be down and maybe they made too big a deal about the issue — in SF and elsewhere — the last couple of years.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Ocean Beach Surf Shop Owner Bob Wise Dies at Age 74 In the surfer community of San Francisco and beyond, if you've been in it a good while, you probably knew about Bob Wise and his half-century-old surf shop at Ocean Beach, Wise Surfboards.
SF News SFMTA and Public Works Clean Up After Dozens of Trees Fall Onto Muni Tracks and Overhead Lines The SFMTA is continuing to clean up on Thursday after a night in which Muni routes were blocked by fallen trees and debris in at least eight different locations around San Francisco.
SF News Two Deaths Attributed to Storm Including Sonoma Toddler; 70,000 Still Without Power Wednesday's bomb cyclone turned out to be less impactful in terms of rainfall totals than the one we saw on Saturday, but forecasters were right about the wind-related dangers, and a downed tree has been blamed for at least one death in Sonoma County.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Wind Gusts Recorded Last Night of 85mph and Higher A wind gust of 101 mph was recorded in Marin last night, the Russian River is likely to see worse flooding on Sunday than it will today, and Amazon is laying of 18,000 workers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Point Richmond and Niles Canyon Residents Evacuated Over Landslide Risks Alameda County officials strongly advised residents of Niles Canyon to evacuate Wednesday; 15 homes have been evacuated in Point Richmond due to a potential landslide occurring above them; and PG&E already had 25,000 customers without power at 4 p.m.
SF News Meteorologists: This Parade of Storms Is Coming From a 'Runaway Pacific Freight Train' and 'Wavy Jet Stream' A "roiling" Pacific Ocean being stirred up by a third-in-a-row La Nina cycle as well as climate change and other factors are making for some unstable and dramatic weather on the West Coast and elsewhere around the globe.
SF News Glass Falls Off Fox Plaza and Crashed Onto Street, Possibly Due to Wind At least one large pane of glass from Fox Plaza came crashing down to the street near Civic Center Wednesday morning in what appears to be the first wind-related hazard on San Francisco streets due to the current storm.
SF News Watsonville Evacuated, Guerneville Braces for Another Flood The majority of coastal California is at a significant risk of flooding today as a 'bomb cyclone' storm bears down, with some inland areas at risk as well, and officials in Watsonville are taking no chances and have issued mandatory evacuation orders.
SF News Rainy Humpday Headlines: The Line For Sandbags Has Been Very Long SF's Dept. of Public Works keeps running out of sandbags but people are lined up anyway, school is being canceled for tomorrow in some cities, and a COVID-positive inmate died in custody in Martinez.
SF News SF Sees Exact Same Number of Homicides In 2022 As Previous Year, While Burglaries Are Down According to the preliminary numbers from the SFPD, San Francisco looks to have had the exact same number of homicides in 2022 as in 2021 — a total of 55 — as of the end of the calendar year.
SF News Midweek 'Bomb Cyclone' May Break Rain Records Already Broken By Saturday's Storm Meteorologists with the National Weather Service are warning that the coming bomb cyclone looks to be even more brutal, windy, and wet than what we just experienced on Saturday. So, clear those storm drains and brace yourselves.
SF News Oakland Zoo Likely Closed For Weeks Due to Sinkhole Near Entrance With another onslaught of rain on the way that is likely to cause more of this type of damage across the region, the Oakland Zoo is facing some significant road-repair work before it can reopen to the public due to a sinkhole that formed after Saturday's storm.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Snowfall In Napa Causes Travel Woes On Hwy 29 Snow fell on part of Highway 29 in Calistoga last night and immobilized some cars; a sinkhole swallowed an SUV in San Mateo; and infectious disease experts are watching the growth of a new U.S.-borne variant of Omicron.
SF News Post-New Year's Weekend Headlines: Aaaand Here Comes More Rain More rain arrives today and then some heavier rain comes midweek; Oakland marked its first homicide of the year on Sunday; and 19 residents of a Castro Valley nursing home had to be evacuated due to flooding on Saturday.
SF News Bernal Hill Becomes One Big Mudslide As San Francisco Sees 173-Year-Old Rainfall Record Shattered You can see the rain pouring down outside in a steady, heavy way, and if you were thinking it seemed especially heavy, you would be correct. And if you live in Bernal Heights, the water is flowing pretty much all over.
SF News Victims Of Marin-Based Ponzi Scheme Given Go-Ahead to Sue Umpqua Bank For Its Alleged Involvement Portland-based Umpqua Bank may be the subject of a class-action lawsuit from jilted investors in a Ponzi-esque investment scheme masterminded by a now deceased Marin County real estate mogul.
SF News San Francisco Mother Accused of Killing Two Young Daughters Enters Not-Guilty Plea There was confusion after police released their initial statements about a double-murder last week that claimed the lives of two young children in Hunters Point about the woman they arrested for the crime. But it's been confirmed that she was the mother of the children.
SF News Colorado Man Charged With Hate Crime In San Ramon In-N-Out Incident San Ramon police made quick work of identifying and locating a suspect last weekend following a Christmas Eve viral-video hate-crime incident at an In-N-Out restaurant, and a similar incident targeting AAPI victims the next day.
