SF News SFPD Arrests Two Teens For Fatal Shooting of Japantown Security Guard A 15-year-old and a 14-year-old are in custody for the Wednesday night shooting of a security guard at the Japantown mall, who was declared dead at the scene shortly after SFPD arrived.
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 Man Who Killed Nia Wilson Loses Appeal of Murder Conviction In 2018 BART Stabbing John Lee Cowell appealed his first-degree murder conviction in the fatal 2018 stabbing of Nia Wilson at an Oakland BART station, but the First Appellate District of California did not buy his attorneys’ claims of an insanity defense.
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 City Attorney Blasts Judge’s Ruling Banning Homeless Encampment Sweeps, Says It ‘Defies Logic’ After a federal judge banned the clearing of tents and encampments in SF, City Attorney David Chiu is kindly asking the judge to “clarify” her decision, while also telling her the decision “defies logic.”
Business & Tech Twitter Now Trying To Auction Off Extra Office Stuff As New Lawsuit Is Filed Over Rent Elon Musk’s Twitter has unpaid bills and lawsuits piling up, and now the company is trying to auction off its furniture, office supplies, kitchen supplies, and neon signs from their lobbies.
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.
Business & Tech Salesforce Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce, Nearly 8,000 Employees San Francisco‘s largest private employer will be a less-large private employer, as Salesforce dropped a bomb Wednesday morning announcing that they’re laying off nearly 8,000 employees.
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 Day Around the Bay: Brian Sabean Leaves the Giants For the NY Yankees That terrifying Tesla crash at Devil’s Slide is now considered to be intentional, feds have charged the man who was busted in the Tenderloin with nearly eight pounds of fentanyl, and architect of the Giants’ dynasty Brian Sabean is leaving the team’s front office to join the New York Yankees.
SF News Mission District and Bernal Heights Restaurants Gear Up For More Floods, As Another Gigantic Storm Looms Barely 72 hours after being battered by floods, several Bay Area restaurants are gearing up for another “bomb cyclone/atmospheric river,” and many have not even reopened after Saturday’s weather-related mayhem.
SF Politics Pelosi Steps Down as Speaker, and Kevin McCarthy Fails Spectacularly In Bid For the Job Bakersfield representative Kevin McCarthy has just lost three consecutive votes in a row Tuesday in his bid to be Speaker of the House of Representatives, as Nancy Pelosi chortles and wipes McCarthy’s dignity off the bottom of her heels.
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 Tesla Flies 250 Feet Off Cliff At Devil’s Slide, All Four Passengers Miraculously Survive It was a Monday morning disaster on the perilous Devil’s Slide section of Highway 1 near Pacifica as a vehicle flew off the road and fell more than 250 feet, yet multiple helicopters and dozens of rescue workers managed to get the two children and two adult passengers out alive.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Bar Star at Bar Iris In Russian Hill Falls From Roof To His Death A promising career ended tragically Friday when 33-year-old bar manager Ilya Romanov fell from the rooftop garden of the Russian Hill establishments Nisei and Bar Iris, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win a Nail Biter Against the Raiders and Are Still In the Hunt For the No. 1 Playoff Seed How about that backup quarterback? No one knew his name before he took the field yesterday, but he played with poise and swagger, passing for 365 yards and three touchdowns. Will he be the new face of the franchise? Will he lead his team to glory?
SF News SF Still Digging Out From Saturday’s Mudslides, Downed Trees, Floods, and Chaos That New Year’s Eve storm was an all-timer, and its aftermath continues with numerous homes still red-tagged, residents displaced, and businesses dealing with the worst flooding wreckage they’ve ever seen.
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.
