wash and then obviously more water came down and more water came through and that s where the mud came from. is it done? just about. there s l.a. and san diego and the heavy rain showers down to even northern mexico. and then snow in the rockies. a lot of snow. salt lake city. snow for the snow bowl. you can go golfing in scottsdale tomorrow and then go skiing in the afternoon up in snow bowl up in flagstaff. i ve done it. it s an amazing event when you can ski and play golf in the same day. there s highland right there. there s more light rain. it s green rather than the orange and the reds. that s where the really heavy convection is. that s farther to the south down towards san diego right now. this was a big storm. it wasn t the storm that we had last week. clearly the storm last week, t.j. i don t know if you were here or on vacation. oh, yeah, i was here. 160 inches of snow on top of the sierra. that s great skiing if you don t get covered in an avalanche. and there are ava
officials believe that if they are lucky the worst of this latest storm has passed this area, the ground remains very saturated from last week s rains. they had to conduct 26 rescues of people last week and one official described it to me this morning as a miracle that they did not suffer any significant injuries and no fatalities. right now we ve got more than 150 thousand bags that have been distributed throughout this town. they are trying to protect the town from any more rain. try t.j.. that s all right. casey has some issues out there hearing everybody in the middle of. it s a mess. you can show me the mess. sometimes this causes problems with our equipment. let s take you to the region first. kind of give you and idea. southern california, there s i-5, los angeles. highland well east, still san
up the local economy. basically what i m reading in the local paper, looks like the economy is better here than other parts of the country. i gue all is good, hang loose. all in good funnel. all fun and games until you get that pat-down on the way out of the airport as you leave. reporter: oh, yeah, they may be watching me and doing that. good to see you as always, buddy. i ll talk to you again soon. reporter: that little new year s surprise. happy new years. this word we just got coming in from new york. port authority reporting all of the main runways are now open at all three of the new york area s major airports. that is a big deal. good news. huge backlog of travelers still remaining in new york but good news to hear all the airports, all the runways are now open after that huge storm, blizzard we saw the past several days. nearly 7500 storms damaged in mud slides in southern california. the community of highland in particular. areas hit by more storms today. hundreds
wherever that airport would be. good info. spending a lot of time on the northeast. but the west coast, need to talk about them as well. people in the west coast trying to get to the northeast. they re still stuck because very few planes were the long haul planes leaving west coast cities to get to the northeast because it was just easier to get the smaller planes in and out and more trying to get from atlanta and albany area other places into new york city than the long haul flights. today we have a little bit of a delay, not bad, in l.a. because of the rain. more of a travel on the roads type of delay than anything else. we did see casey wian right there. that s highland, california. here s san bernardino, rialto and fontana off to the west and so is l.a. and the pacific ocean. there s highland right there. that s where the flooding is occurring. we know there s flooding in other places. this storm though is a minor storm although 106 miles per hour in pyramid lake. minor to the
has just no more saturation capability whatsoever. it just can t absorb any more water. so anything that comes down runs off. and you can just see how sloppy that was. that just looked dirty, i guess. there s highland right there. there s san bernardino mountains. there s a couple of valleys out of san bernardino mountains as well. that s where the water came from and where the problem is. see the gullies and the washes? they come down and all of a sudden it flattens out. the mud running down the valleys. you have lands that doesn t have vegetation on it anymore because of the fires. the mud starts to run down and then starts to get down toward the flatland. casey is right about right there. the wash right there. and that wash literally washed all of the dirt out of the canyons and back down and into the homes. this is where the dry wash would be. a dry creek 363 days out of the year except for this year because it s been so rainy. this water hasn t stopped. there was already water in