relief to californians as they've been battling drought but they certainly do still have a long way to go. >> one man who knows it very well is our own meteorologist derek van dam who joins us from the weather center with a look ahead from the state of california. >> zain, i think you used the operative word some correctly because it's only been some rain and some relief for california. they've got a long way to go and put it into perspective and still need 11 trillion gallons of water just to end the drought in its current state. 99.7% of the state of california still under drought conditions. let's compare this to something you and i are familiar with. how about an olympic size pool. 11 trillion gallons of water is equivalent to 17 million olympic size pools full of water. can you imagine that coming out of the sky. we still have several, several storms to go before we actually become, well, relatively drought-free for the californian