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The bay area gets soaked. pounding rain triggers mud slides, rising water sends peek rushing to higher ground. >> leave! before it floods, you know? >> the new fears swelling rivers could spill their banks. plus, the unique plan to protect a neighborhood in the flood zone. >> a community rallies to help the 6-year-old seriously hurt in a hit-and-run. an update on the search for the driver. >> 21 to smoke? our exclusive bay area poll on the straights strict new tobacco crackdown. >> new at 6:00, ...

Saturday. david begnaud is there. >> reporter: bossier city is under water tonight. this woman can be seen floating down the street on an air mattress, one of dozens of evacuees in the area. 3,500 homes are under mandatory evacuation, but some residents are unable to get out. >> we can fit some more in here if we need. >> reporter: rescue crews are searching this area, helping families get to higher ground. neighbors are pitching in, bringing sandbags to homes that are not flooded yet. across th...

Stuck, still trying to hammer out the terms of their defeat. there have been several of these, call them stalemates, call them mini-truces, across the country in the last couple of years, scott. they dont always go smoothly. some are more successful than others, but in the end they almost certainly save lives. >> pelley: elizabeth palmer in the syrian capital damascus for us tonight. liz, thank you. the label said "100% parmesan cheese," but it was 100% wrong. theres a new warning about a contra...

Only on 5, making room for a major development. work is finally starting on yerba buena island as well as treasure island for a project 20 years in the making. but as kpix 5s emily turner tells us, the billion-dollar development comes at the cost of hundreds of trees. emily. >> reporter: veronica, this morning one woman described this scene as something from a scary movie and you can see why she would feel that way. it is actually the scene of san franciscos largest and latest development. it is...

Breaking news. four people shot in vallejo. one of the victims a young child. >> only on 5, clearing the way for a billion-dollar island transformation but first hundreds of trees have to go. >> i like this place the way it is. >> the massive destruction before a new bay area neighborhood can take shape. >> the sign says free weed. and its no joke. >> its necessary to legalize it. >> what a pot supporter is asking for in return and the tricky legal line he is walking. >> they are coming in sick,...

Super bowl money is a big topic of conversation in san francisco, as in, how much should the host city get? heres john blackstone. >> reporter: when 70,000 football fans fill levis stadium, it will be the culmination of three years of planning and a nine-day celebration. >> we have credentialled over 40,000 people to work on the super bowl itself. >> reporter: peter oreilly is the nfl senior vice president of special events. the scale has become ridiculous, hasnt it? >> it has, but it really is ...

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Is expected to be much lighter. >> pelley: ben tracy reporting. thanks. also in california today, a state of emergency was declared over a massive natural gas leak near los angeles. thousands were evacuated from l.a.s porter ranch neighborhood after people there complained of nausea and headaches. the methane has been blasting out of a broken well since october. and today in michigan, an emergency was declared in flint, where the drinking water is contaminated with lead. last october children we...

Of doctors, pharmacies and distributors throughout the state. >> we are talking, in a certain sense, drug traffickers, and they are doing nothing but writing and cranking out prescription after prescription after prescription. >> reporter: theyre pushers. >> they truly are. >> reporter: west virginia has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the nation. each year doctors write the equivalent of one painkiller prescription for every man, woman and child in the state of ti8 million. in the last y...

>> reporter: record amounts of rain have fallen in parts of los angeles, and the national weather service says a gustnado damaged eight buildings near downtown, ripping off part of the roof and blowing out windows. but the region is also getting something it desperately needs: water. some of the billions of gallons of storm water inundating rivers in los angeles are being diverted into recharge basins, where they replenish groundwater supplies. gary hildebrand is the deputy director of the publi...