Damage in texas. Reporter houston, the nations fourth largest city is under water in many areas. This is a little bit of a situation of a tale of two cities. Torrential rains triggered flash flooding on the city streets. Forecasters say almost a foot of rain pouring down in just a matter of hours. Probable like, underneath the beltway. The deluge sent cars floating down roads. Some stranded motorists had to climb under their car roofs just to escape the deep water while waiting to be rescued. Normally we had about 900 calls for service in a 24hour period and as of 9 30 this morning we responded to 968. Officials say last nights flooding claimed at least three more lives and city leaders are urging people to stay indoors. And if you can stay home please stay home. Reporter heavy rain in other parts of texas last weekend brought more flooding to the already saturated state. The governor declaring 37 counties disaster areas. President obama says fema is on the ground coordinating with local first responders. I assured Governor Abbott that he can count on the help of the federal government. So far the storms have left at least nine dead and many more missing near san antonio. Among those rescuers are searching for laura mccomb and her two children. She called me. She said im in a house. Im floating down the river. And tonight there are at least a dozen people still missing. Philip mena, abc news, wemberley, texas. More than a hundred Houston Rockets fans were stranded along with dwight howard. An arena posted the emergency flood advisory during the game last night. And 15,000 people stayed at least an hour and the number dwindled as the evening wore on. Most of his teammates left because they live close by the arena, but he wanted to play it safe. I live far from here. They said that the road i would take to my house is flooded and i dont want to be on the highway stuck and i would rather be here sitting and on the floor and enjoying the scenery, so im happy about that. So many cars did get stranded. Arena officials opened up the club level for fans to get food and refreshment and howard was playing ambassador and visiting some of the fans were staying there. That is nice and the warriors are back home playing against the Houston Rockets and steph appears to be fine. Thats everybodys question. The teams charter landed at 1 15 this afternoon. As the players and coaches got off of the plane. As for last night the warriors, while they trailed from the start and this was the flight that scared everybody, mvp steph curry upended after crashing into the rockets trevor ariza. Doctors and trainers spent the last several minutes making sure curry did not have a concussion. Doctors said he did not and he returned in the second half. Not how i envisioned the game going and at this point we lost but all in all i came out of that relatively okay. James harden scored 45 points leading the rockets to a 128115 victory. Golden state still leading the series three games to one. Many warriors are fans are wondering if currys fall, so hard to watch, will affect him for game five. That was the hot topic of conversation on sports talk radio. Abc 7 news is at 95. 7 and callers were expressing support for curry and they think curry will be all right. You never know until you get a chance to rest and recuperate to see if there are lasting impacts from a fall like that. He landed awkwardly on his back and neck so there could be an impact, but in reality steph curry will be okay. Chad ewing doesnt expect cur toe slow down his pace in tomorrows game five and he says thats why hes the mvp of the league. Game five is tomorrow at oracle and an interesting note for warriors fans and they clinched on the road every night and we look forward to that. If needed game six will be back in houston on friday and game seven ator beingael on sunday and you can catch the action our Sister Network espn and abc 7 is your home for the nba finals and the finals begin right here on june 4th. And warriors fans show us your pride. We want to see you cheering on the dubs and theyre one win away from the nba finals and use the hash tag dubson7 and we are featureing your fan photos on air and online on abc 7 news. Com. Turning to the weather now and we may be in the middle of a drought and there may be a little bit of rain occasionally. Abc 7 news was on Howard Street as people popped up their umbrellas as a light mist covered San Francisco. Spencer christian with our first look at the accuweather update. Hi, spencer. There is a slight chance well see more drizzly drops tonight and nothing significant and it may be enough to dampen the windshield or cause you to put up your umbrella and things are dry in the bay area and we have low clouds containing some moisture near the coast as you can see over the Golden Gate Bridge right now and these are the wet spots over the next 24 hours and lahonda 500 and 300 at Half Moon Bay and 200 in San Francisco and 100 of an inch in watsonville and heres a look atom nows clouds and the current temperatures are 64 and 60 in San Francisco and 67 in san jose and 72 at san jose and 61 in Half Moon Bay and heres our view looking over San Francisco into partly cloudy skies and in nap a 67 and pet lum a 61 and 72 in fairfield and 71 in fairfield. As he looked at clouds along the bay, here ate first forecast, well see low clouds much like last night and there may be spotty drizzle and mostly cloudy in the Early Morning hours and giving way to mainly sunny skies and it will be warmer inland tomorrow with the warmest inland spots and not much warmer than the coast and ill give you a look farther into the forecast future. Larry and ama . An apple facility caught fire in arizona. It started just before 11 30. The fire appeared on solar panels, not inside and the crews knocked them down in less than 45 minutes and there were no reports of injuries and the cause is under investigation. Arson investigators in va vallejo are looking into the cause of a suspicious fire. It broke out on martin street arth 2 30 this mo of morning and it was fully engulfed. A homeless man was staying inside, but he wasnt hurt. This is the fourth fire in vallejo in the last 48 hours. A decadesold missing persons case is a step closer from being solved today. Remains found five years ago east of fremont are indeed that of 21yearold Elisabeth Martinsson martinsson, she was an Exchange Student from sweden. Her family has been notified. The family she stayed with issued this statement today. Elisabeth worked for our family as an au pair. She was a wonderful soul and very kind and shes still missed today. Martinssons cause of death has not been determined, but authorities suspect foul play and vic lee will have a full report on abc 7 news at 5 00. Two Armed Robbery suspects are in custody in oakland following a brief search. Sky 7 hd were on the scene around 10 00 this morning and police started receiving reports of two armed menni robbing multiple victims near fruitvale and david street and no one was hurt in those robberyies and Police Tracked them to a vacant home on mitchell and arrested them. Two burglars were caught on camera in this surveillance video. The burglary took place at 4 00 in the afternoon on harington court. They got away with Electronic Devices and jewelry. If you know these two men you are asked to call the Los Altos Police department. Palo altos last remaining Mobile Home Park could end but the residents promised not to go out without a fight. It is along El Camino Real and matt keller has more on the story from palo altos city hall. Reporter welcome to the buena vista Mobile Home Park tucked away in El Camino Real. Its the last Mobile Home Park in palo alto. 12 studio units and one singlefamily home. In november 20 twechl the owner submitted an application to close it. The residents fought back and now sit in limbo wondering if and when the eviction notices will arrive. Its in gods hands man. This whole thing is in gods hands. Even the city council has limitations. The council cant stop the owner from closing the park. They can only discuss the adequacy of the relocation benefits required by a palo alto ordinance. Basically the residents need to be paid for the value of their mobile home, a rent subsidy residents were offered from 12,000 to 29,000 and others may be getting more or less however with rental and home prices skyrocketing in Silicon Valley residents may be forced to look outside the bay area. If he offered me 29,000, and i look in the same Mountain View, the value is 200,000 is not fair. In todays meeting the council will decide if the amount of the independent a praiser is adequate. They can approve the closure or hire another a praiser, one is the Palo Alto School system has been included. One of the main reason people are here is because they want their school. They want a good education for their kids and want their kids to do better. City and county leaders have been buying the Mobile Home Park for Affordable Housing and they dont want to discuss the deal until after the city council approves. In palo alto matt keller, abc 7 news. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00 amtraks new plan to keep passengers on the tracks after the deadly derailment in philadelphia. Hundreds of east bay children may soon lose the school and the plea parents are getting ready to make tonight. A water mystery in the east bay. The leak creating a muddy mess that no one can seem to figure out. At 4 11, our first check of afternoon traffic and a live look at the san mateo bridge going to the peninsula and the exit at hayward was stacked up a little bit and the righthand side going back toward 101 south covering loss altos, petaluma and the bay area this is abc 7 news. A statefunded preschool in antioch may be forced to close leaving 300 kids without a free preschool preschool. Tonight parents and administrators are taking concerns to the city council hoping they will help. Abc 7 News ReporterLyanne Melendez is live in antioch with the latest effort to save this school. Lyanne . Reporter hi, ama. In a few hour the City Council Chambers will be packed with parents asking for their support to help save their school. If that fails tomorrow the parents will face the school board. Kids club in antioch has served many families who cant afford to pay. It has truly been a preschool for all funded by the state and free for most families. Its helped a lot for my kids spelling reading, writing. For the past ten years the Antioch Unified School district his leased the space to the preschool for less than 5,000 a month. Last year the district notified them it wanted the space back for their special needs kids. Finding a similar space for that amount of money has been impossible, but recently the director of the preschool approached the city and the School District about two vacant parcels where they can build on. We have put in offers for both land thats owned by the city and the School District. Both parcels are sitting vacant right now and we have requested use of them and we have not heard back from the city nor the School District at this point in time. Abc 7 news did this afternoon. The city manager said selling or leasing any land would be a lengthy process. You have to declare it a surplus and we dont think theres anything the city can do in the short run to be very helpful. Parents arent giving up yet. This evening they will ask the city council to intervene on their behalf. We cant afford a preschool. This is the only way that our children can get the head start can have a preschool like all the other kids. The school has until july 31st to find a space or it will have to close. In antioch, Lyanne Melendez abc 7 news. Amtrak says it will install video cameras that record the actions of trade engineers and this move follows the deadly derailment in philadelphia two weeks ago and investigators are searching for clues to determine what the trains engineer did just before the crash. He suffered a head injury and has told investigators he cant remember what happened. The owner of the ruptured pipeline in Santa Barbara county hopes to have the portion of the pipe removed by the end of the day. The pipe broke a week ago creating a 10square Mile Oil Slick in the ocean. Brandy hit has the latest. The ruptured oil line that caused the devastating spill around Santa Barbaras coastline is in the process of being removed for further investigation. After we move the affected section of pipeline the remaining portion of the line will be completely purged with inert gas. Reporter thats not the only potential problem site. Allamerican pipelines has a preliminary report red flagged and four possible hazard areas along the 11mile stretch of pipe. If not, we will cover it back up and go on to the next one. Its believed up to 101,000 gallons of oil spilled over last weeks break leaving no escape for wild life spilling through the blackened water. At least one sea lion and nine oilcovered pelicans have been killed along with countless amounts of fish. And with so much thick sludge washing ashore, hundreds of additional volunteers are now being given a crash course on safely removing oil from beaches that remain closed. Now is the time for helping. Right now i think we ought to come together to clean this mess up. Governor jerry browns emergency proclamation is freeing up state funding for immediate clean up costs and it is unknown how much that tab will total and it insists it will pay for everything. In los angeles brandy hit abc 7 news. Delta air lines is expanding its service into the bay area adding a deadly nonstop flight in atlanta and Oakland International airport. Through Hartsfield JacksonInternational Airport begins october 1st. Port Officials Say atlanta is one of Oakland Internationals largest underserved markets and the new service will help keep up with demand. We demand weather right now. Thats what we need and more normal conditions today. A little more blue sky out there, spencer. Thats true. Its getting bluer as we speak and its going to be getting warmer in our inland areas steadily over the next several days and the coast not so much. Here is a look at live doppler 7 hd and we have cloudy skies over the bay and were cloudier than that at the coast and mainly sunny inland. Lets move inland and take a look at stormy weather. Remember those violent storms that hit eastern texas and oklahoma yesterday. It has moved on to parts of georgia and northern florida and another area of Severe Weather concern has developed in texas again, west of dallas and this entire area of yellow is under a tornado watch as powerful storms are rumbling through that area and a Tornado Warning is in effect in that area and our line is in the red box and east of kedo along interstate 20 and it looks like a very powerful cell there watching what develops in Central Texas for you. Back in the bay area and breezy in some spots and gust ney others and 31mileperhour gusts and 22 hayward and 25 at Mountain View so the winds are blowing. Heres a look at partly cloudy skies over the bay from the south beach camera here in downtown San Francisco and hes are our forecast features and we will see cloudy conditions overnight with patchy drizzle likely and warmer inland in the next few days and the cooler pattern will settle in on sunday and might even bring a drizzle with it. Heres a look at the water vapor satellite image and the disturbed weather beginning to push out of the bay area slowly right now and building in behind that will be a weak ridge of High Pressure which means only weak warming. Well feel the warming areas over the bay and not much on the coast and as we skip ahead for the weekend, by sunday it seems more drizzle is possible and sunday is looking like a sunny and warm day. Overnight, lots of low clouds pushing inland and drizzle is likely along the coast and well see low temperatures in the low to mid50s. Mainly sunny inland with highs up to 80 degrees in the warmest inland locations and here is the accuweather sevenday forecast and notice the steady high temperatures and into the mid80s and mid to upper 70s along the bay and only low 60s on the coast and a sharp cooldown on sunday and get back to a more to a steadier, more seasonal pattern and we still see no significant rainfall in the future. Larry and ama . Thank you, spencer. Up next, meet the matriarch of dub nation and the prediction this 105yearold hoops fan is making for her warriors. The championship . New after 4 30, the man who tried to unseat a longtime south bay congressman german chancellor Angela Merkel tops the list of the worlds most powerful women. Merkel has topped the list for five straight years and ten times in all. The women on the list represent various categories including politics, business and philanthropy. As for the rest of the top five Hillary Cl