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Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Now at 11 00, the bay area getting the brunt of an ugly storm from the north bay to the south bay. Dangerous flooding and mud slides forcing people from their homes. Good evening, im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. We have Team Storm Coverage tonight. First, lets get to joe vasquez near the Russian River where the situation has gotten worse. Joe, people had to be rescued tonight. Reporter thats the case here liz. You know, it has been rain...

Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Now at 11 00, the bay area getting the brunt of an ugly storm from the north bay to the south bay. Dangerous flooding and mud slides forcing people from their homes. Good evening, im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. We have Team Storm Coverage tonight. First, lets get to joe vasquez near the Russian River where the situation has gotten worse. Joe, people had to be rescued tonight. Reporter thats the case here liz. You know, it has been rain...

I keep going back to being a native californian, i have never heard in one day so many ebss, emergency broadcast systems, where your programming was interrupted or youre listening to the radio. That lovely tone. Yeah. Beep, beep. Its important. It is, it is. You kind of wish they would say Flash Flood Warning for the entire bay area but the National Weather service which is in monterey actually they have all these different rain gauges. I think we lost something on the desk. Something on our des...

Caused the floodwaters to rise more quickly than expected. The new prediction is eight feet crest of the Russian River no, were talking about it would crest at 37. 6 feet, thats almost 8 feet above flood stage. Niely road is closed right now. Our team caught this driver of the pickup truck trying to make it down the road despite that water, she says her friends wanted to go back to check on their cats but water came over the top of the hood and our joe vazquez caught up with her once the rescuer...

Im michelle griego. Lets get right to Team Coverage. Anne makovec has a look at damage done from a mudslide plus kpix 5s emily turner is in kentfield where a raging creek is causing flooding, but first, Roberta Gonzales is in the Weather Center tracking the storm. Even though our live hidef Doppler Radar is now beginning to quiet down, the damage is done. The ground is already saturated. And in some neighborhoods, we have picked up over 7 inches of rain in 24 hours. The Santa Cruz Mountains Boul...

It was terrible. It was a slow crawl of cars. And that time too, it was because of the potholes. Officials tell me this freeway is due to be repaved, but they have to wait for dry weather to get that done. They say this freeway takes quite a beating with all of the trucks that it handles every single day. And then all of this wet weather, the weak road just crumbles, it cant handle it. So they do plan to repave it but they cant do it right now this this weather so now all they can do is patch it...

The water has eroded a several feet of canyon road. Bob steele has lived in the area for more than 50 yearssot Bob Steele Fairfax resident 106114 and along porteous avenue, residents are still cleaning up mud that filled the street tuesdaysot Dylan Eastman fairfa x resident 120125while the mud seems to have disapated the water from the nearby hillside continues to pour through the streets. 133 the streets also happening now in the north bay crews are working to remove standing water on highway 3...

Learned the state gave workers the green light to clean the mudslides on highway 17 after a worker died up there but as you mentioned that slide is now on the move again so they have shut down highway 17 and it has caused quite a head ache here. It began just before 10 this morning. Highway 17 shut down at summit road southbound and Granite Creek road northbound. Traffic once again backed up on the major route between san jose and santa cruz. Its inconvenient. Since tuesday the mudslides caused ...

Minutes. We have so much rain that there is flooding for the area. East bay and the creek overflowing their banks. Niles canyon. You cannot make that shortcut. Central Santa Cruz County has more problems and we do have a Flood Warning in effect for central sonoma county. Many creeks have flooding occurring. Cloudy skies and rain showers and temperatures in the 50s. It will be a cool day in the 50s. The full forecast in the storm watch at 5 18. Michelle. Right now and mass transit. Theres no hk T...

This forecast path. The weaker side on the western side. The advancing side on the eastern side could be where the stronger winds and typically the storm surge would be located. It could change more of a westerly track. Concern with strong wind gusts on the coastal areas. The cone of air does include portions of the bay area Highlands County meaning that within this time period, say, thursday at 2 00 p. M. , 130 miles an hour winds offshore. That is not what we would experience in places like po...