homes on this street, causing 59 residents to evacuate on their own and 49 others to escape using trucks and boats. sky 7 provides a clear sense of the scope of the flood as the nearby pacheco creek turned into a river, quickly threatening houses. this family was first urged to evacuate and then ordered to get away from the advancing floodwaters. she escaped on someone s back. piggyback ride. my little sister got a piggyback right. it wasn t that deep, i had boots on, but it was pretty bad. reporter: matt s house flooded damaging the floor, carpeting and walls. a neighbor alerted him at 1:30 in the morning how fast the water was rising. it was about two or three feet deep out there moving fast. so it came out there, it came from a break somewhere up there and was coming around the house, came down the road around into that pasture. reporter: pacheco creek was primed to flood. years of drought allowed trees and ground vegetation to take over the dry creek bed, creating
it happened in the middle of the night as a raging pinole creek washed away a huge chunk of alhambra valley road at castro ranch near pinole. i think there s a hole. big hole. a big hole, yeah. a little excitement in pinole. it s pretty crazy. i mean knowing that i drove this last night and now seeing that there s nothing there, i take this road all the time. my friends and come and hang out here. it s just kind of shocking. reporter: in martinez, a deli owner spent his morning cleaning up after overflowing alhambra creek pushed a sea of water and mud into downtown. all my patio, all sticks, chairs started moving. it s crazy. reporter: ben owns the martinez athletic club on crass electrostreet. we had to stop class and some people were like we re stopping class for what, it s just raining. we open the door and they saw that the rain was like past the curb and was on the curb. it was almost to the front door. reporter: in benicia, it was heavy rain, high tide
the russian river is cresting in sonoma county, that means it s hitting the highest point of course the river has been over flood stage for hours and will stay flooded for more hours. wade freed miedman is live with difference. reporter: good evening, dan. it begins to rain once again. flood stage is 38 feet. residents say to their eyes, it s been going down for quite awhile. one thing we know for certain, cleaning up is going to take along time. this is bad news to everyone except school kids who just learned tonight that classes are cancelled tomorrow. . welcome to lake. it s been awhile from moving to point a to point b presented such daunting challenges. how do you get from here to there? right now you don t. you don t get from here to there. reporter: it s part of the drill in a region where the russian river floods, road signs became prone to under statement and residents to resignation or maybe indigestion. tuna fish, beer, you know, the officials. reporter:
i ll go over some of the river warnings and creek warnings coming up next. this morning, drivers in the east bay will have to figure out how to get around a massive roadway mess on a popular shortcut. look at this video. east of pinole, alhambra valley road collapsed last night and left a gaping hole, 70 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. it was washed away by all the water that s been flowing through pinole creek the past few days. drivers use this to get to second inning 80. it is now closed indefinitely and no estimate on when repairs could even begin. in martinez, a large lip us the branch fell. they took out the entire tree after fears were expressed the entire thing could come down. this particular eucal has lost a branch before and i think the city is doing a great thing cutting it down. you hate to lose a tree but it s a safe move right here. there was damage to the driver s convertible as you can see but he is reportedly going to be okay. once the rain stops an
since i last saw you, that hazmat crew has arrived and they have unloaded many of the chemicals from the back of that pickup truck into their own vehicle. this is just the first step in getting the exit ramp from northbound 880 on to mission boulevard back open for this morning commute. it s obviously a very important road for people heading to work this morning. this all happened just before 1:00 this morning. the f-150 pickup truck crashed into the sand barrels, separating the exit ramp with 880. pool chemicals ended up spilling out, including what they think could be sulfuric acid. biggest concern is they could mix and that would be bad for everyone out here. now they don t believe any spilled into the drain or waterways. the driver was not hurt but he was arrested on suspicion of dui. once they get these pool chemicals cleaned up out of that truck and away from the scene, then they ll have to call in the tow truck, get that truck towed away, and then hopefully people will