residents in california are now near desperate to be rescued. the back to back snowstorms that they have been dealing with have left many trapped and also trapped for days in mountain community meteorologist chad myers has more on this. this is something you have been tracking so closely. they have been dealing with all of this snow. now they are being todd told to prepare for flooding. . >> now they have to deal with rain on snow. is and rain on snow on their roof. and if that rain doesn't wash away the snow, you're just going to pile up the weight on top of those buldings that already have in some spots over 100 inches of snow. in some spots more than that. flood watches have been posted for this next what we call atmospheric river. when i was a young kid about that going to college, this was