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 someones back. Piggyback ride. My little sister got a piggyback right. It wasnt that deep, i had boots on, but it was pretty bad. Reporter matts 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 log jams when the heavy storms hit. The creek is the dividing line between santa clara and san bonito counties. Its dark and its cold and its pouring down rain. You dont know where the roads are. You know, if the roads are flooded, then youre in danger. Reporter the creek began to recede as the rain stopped, giving residents a chance to clean up. Just as sky 7 gives us an overall perspective of the damage, the san bonito search and rescue team flew a drone to survey the rescue zone. The red cross is providing temporary shelter for those residents who cannot yet return to their homes. Building inspectors have been making the rounds looking to see how much damage has been done and whether individual residents can safely we occupy their homes. Were live in hollister, david louie, abc 7 news. It wasnt just people who were stuck in the floodwaters, several large and small animals got stuck as well. Abc 7 News ReporterJessica Castro has that part of the story. Reporter a tough scene to watch as rescuers pick up a family from Higher Ground and drive away in an atv. Their dog running alongside for quite some time through several nearby properties and then even into deeper water, waiting to be rescued. Other animals captured by sky 7 took a more comalm approach. Cattle surrounded by fastrising waters. Then a few moments later, watch as they realize its not too deep and join the group huddled together in a corner. We counted at least seven there. Then a bigger herd of cattle seen not too far away, you see them huddled together as well in a more open area, water reaching halfway up their legs. Horses had to be taken out of their stables also, seen here being loaded on to a large trailer that would ultimately take them to safety. You can see the water knee deep for people helping those animals. And on a more lighthearted note, we found the only animals that dont need to be rescued. If they have survived more than 200 million years, theyll make it through this storm. Weve reached out to the hollister animal shelter, and were told they are working on a plan of what to do with all the rescues. They may need additional help to house the larger animals. Well keep you posted. Im Jessica Castro, abc 7 news. Well, the sun came out today. Finally. Lets take a live look outside from our east bay hills camera. There are some clouds but you can still see there was sun out there. The sun was out for like five seconds, i think, because more rain is coming, course. Spencer christian is here with the forecast. The sun has been in hiding for a while. Heres live doppler 7. We have Little Pockets of light rain and showers scattered around the bay area right now in advance of our next approaching storm, which is out at sea at the moment. Its a light storm ranking 1 on our storm impact scale. It will move in tonight and continue through much of the day tomorrow bringing pockets of moderate rain. Of course there is the potential for more flooding and it will be slightly breezy with the storm. A Flood Warning along much of the Russian River remains in effect until friday morning at 1 30. There is light rain falling in that area which does not diminish the chance of flooding. Down in the south bay Flood Warnings in effect for a long stretch of highway 101 from coyote southward beyond morgan hill and south of gilroy until 2 45 a. M. And a Flood Warning along watsonville until 11 15 tomorrow morning. Coastal flood advisory is in effect for virtually all of the bay area until noon tomorrow. We have the king tides or unusually high tides adding to that a chance of flooding. High tide will occur at 10 30 tomorrow morning and well keep you up to date on all of this. Ill give you a look at the accuweather forecast in a few minutes. In the north bay, the Russian River is expected to stay at flood stage until tomorrow. Thats having a huge impact on People Living there. Abc 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman is live in guerneville. Wayne. Reporter well, flood stage, flood stage looks like what you see behind me over here. Flood stage means water in the streets. Guerneville residents say its not getting any worse right now, but its bad enough. This is going to take quite a cleanup. In guerneville tonight, what amounts to a variation of an ageold question. Why would anyone stand by the water along neeley road. To get to the other side. Reporter and to wait for a ride from Bruce Mcdonald who has volunteered himself and a duck boat in place of public transit, serving all needs. The best story is i took this woman right over to her cat and the best story was the cat was fine. Reporter one woman among 300 residents cut off from the rest of the world by the rising Russian River flooded in, they say, not out. Theres a distinction. Flooded in means youre stranded. Flooded out means youve got a mess. Reporter if the rain holds off, all infrastructure will return wi return. With every inch that the river recedes, life returns back to normal. Its only bad if people arent prepared for it. Reporter it is the spirit of guerneville, maybe a little water logged but enduring a much easier bad time than its dealt with in bad times before. Does this alarm you . No. Reporter Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. But this might alarm some. Incredible damage that can only be appreciated from the air. Sky 7 was over a gap of 70 feet near pinole. Thats just a gusher right in the middle of the roadway. The road washed out in last nights rain. The road is closed between bear croak and castro ranch roads. Theres so much damage that officials have no idea how long it will take to fix it. A mudslide forced a family of seven out of their home overnight in sunol. The Alameda CountyFire Department tweeted out these pictures of kirkare road, which remains closed. Niles canyon road will reopen at 5 00 this evening. Our camera captured this video of an exva kavart removing mud. Look at this, Fremont Police posted this picture of a car that was abandoned during the flooding. You can see its covered in mud and debris after that flooding was cleared. Trees brought down power lines and there were Power Outages throughout the oakland hills. A pg e crew told us they had been working since 7 00 a. M. Yesterday trying to keep up with all the outages. Despite it being spirit week, things were very quiet at mon tara middle school where the power went out yesterday and classes were cancelled today. Max, our son, is a sixth grader here. I woke up to a lot of messages saying the school is still closed. Reporter Oakland School officials tell us montera was the only school with a stormrelated problem. This is orinda where the trees were also coming down from last nights storm. A crew took that tree down, then cleends cleends up all the mud. The soggy unstable soil has caused another huge tree to topple over. An 80foot eucalyptus crashing down on this house. The woman inside escaped injury. The tree also dragged down a power pole and crushed a parked car nearby. Chris sent us this photo. A tree came down on his neighbors bmw. Oh, goodness. This is near all at that plaza park. The chp tweeted out this photo of a washedout section. Heres how it looked. I know its a little unstable here, but you can see the road just give way right there and then splash. Morton road is located near the alta exit of interstate 80. The abc 7 news app is also a great resource for closures and everything you need to know about the storms. You can track live doppler 7 any time right under the weather section. Just enable push alerts so you can get weather alerts right on your phone. Still to come at 4 00, straight from the congressional hearings on capitol hill to the hospital. Why senator Dianne Feinstein is now resting at home. Plus with donald trump and russia once again making headlines, trump held his First Press Conference as president elect. Im Elizabeth Hur outside trump tower with all the details, coming up. Its very overwhelming. Yeah, overwhelming is right. Two 10yearold sisters, actually twins as you see there, they met face to face for the first time today. Their story is coming up. Wow. Look at traffic right now at 4 10. This is 101 in san jose. Southbound is all backed up, as usual. Northbound moving nicely. 880 over the top is fine. The best news of all, its not raining. Well be back with more on abc 7 sure, you could sit around all night waiting for a pizza to be delivered. But wouldnt making it yourself be a lot more fun . Its baking season. Warm up with pillsbury. Protein. Protein proteiny protein. Proteiny protein . Protein proteiny protein. At least 14 grams of protein. 100 calories. New greek 100 protein. From yoplait. An illegal casino, drugs and raw sewage. Deputies say they stopped an operation bringing crime as well as unsanitary conditions to east oakland. During the raid today, deputies arrested 20 of the 28 people who were found inside this building at 69th and bancroft avenue. Sky 7 shows the backyard just filled with trash. A 5yearold was among the people illegally living inside the building in unsanitary conditions. That business had been in operation for a long time. Vallejo police are looking for help identifying the gunman in last months shooting death of a pawn shop owner. Investigators have released this Surveillance Video showing two men considered suspects in the shooting inside pawn advantage. This took place on december the 20th. 49yearold timothy polt and a dog were killed. A 45yearold man who worked at the shop was wounded. The state pawn association is offering a 25,000 reward. Layoffs are coming to pg e. Today the San Franciscobased company said its cutting back in an effort to save 300 million annually. Nearly 400 jobs will be cut, including eight corporate positions. 800 contractors will also lose their jobs. The company also plans to cut costs by renegotiating contracts with vendors. President elect donald trump held his first News Conference since the election today. This was not your normal president ial News Conference. Things got a little heated. Elizabeth hur is live outside trump tower with the details. Elizabeth. Reporter donald trump today covered a number of topics but his relationship with russia dominated that hourlong press conference with him once again calling the new allegations a political witch hunt. In his first News Conference since july and first one as president elect its all fake news. Its phony stuff. It didnt happen. Reporter donald trump dismissing and denying the unconfirmed reports that russia has compromising information that could e used against him. It was a group of opponents that got together, sick people, and they put that crap together. Reporter the allegations are supposedly from Anonymous Sources inside the kremlin talking to a former british spy. The claims were contained in a dossier democrats and republicans gave to the fbi. Among the claims, during trumps travel to moscow for a Miss Universe contest in 2013, whether the russians filmed trump with prostitutes to be able to blackmail him if they so wished. Does anyone really believe that story . Im also very much of a germophobe, by the way, believe me. Reporter from russia to taxes to obamacare to the wall were going to build a wall. Mexico will reimburse us for the cost of the wall. Reporter trump announced his sons will take over his business, maintaining there will be no conflict of interest when he takes office, but russia was the big headline with trump finally admitting president Vladimir Putin may be behind the dnc hacking. He shouldnt have done it. I dont believe hell be doing it more. Reporter trump went on to say his administration is now working on a hacking defense report, which will be released within 90 days after inauguration. Russia in the meantime is denying any involvement. Reporting live outside trump tower, im Elizabeth Hur for abc 7 news. The president elects News Conference prompted some very strong reaction today. It did. Abc 7 news anchor kristen sze gathered opinions and is here with that part of the story. Strong reaction on several points, including president elect donald trump calling cnn fake news and refusing to answer its reporters questions. No, not you. Not you. Your organization is terrible. Reporter just watching him talk and denying the allegations saying that it was false media, its just hard to watch. I think he has tremendous just blatant disrespect for the media and the press and so its not surprising. At the Ferry Building in San Francisco, russian tourist olga agrees with mr. Trump that russian president Vladimir Putin holds nothing over him. I think this is newspapers, tv channels, they make story that trump and putin and putin helps and thats like billboards. Not true . I think its newspaper. There is also reaction over mr. Trump slamming u. S. Intelligence for leaked unsubstantiated reports that russia may have blackmail material on him. Democratic congressman from burbank, adam schiff, tweets comparing the Intelligence Community to nazi germany, a new low. These men and women who serve our country are patriots. Larry and ama. All right, kristen, thank you so much. Senator Dianne Feinstein is resting at home after having a pacemaker installed. The 83yearold issued a Statement Today saying the procedure went smoothly and was done out of caution. The implantation was performed yesterday after feinstein participated in the confirmation hearing of alabama senator Jeff Sessions. President elect trumps nominee for attorney general. Feinstein says shell return to a full schedule soon. Spencer is back. I guess we are literally right in the middle of the calm between the storms. We are indeed. A little bit of a teaser today as we had pretty calm weather. A few scattered showers but another storm is on the way. Heres live doppler 7. At the moment we have scattered pockets of light rain and showers. You can also see areas of rain Getting Better organized offshore so we have that next storm arriving tonight. Heres a current view from our a live view looking at the western sky which is bright, but still mostly cloudy. Its 54 degrees right now in San Francisco, 51 in oakland. Low to mid50s in mountain view, san jose and gilroy and 50 at half moon bay. This is the view from our sutro tower camera looking northward at mostly cloudy skies. Its cool up north, a temperature reading at 48 at this hour at santa rosa but low to mid50s at napa, novato, fairfield, concord and livermore. A view from mt. Tam, we dont see the turbulent conditions weve seen the last few days. These are our forecast features. We expect moderate rainfall overnight. Slightly cooler conditions tomorrow. And dry days lie ahead, beginning on friday. The approaching storm ranks 1 on our storm impact scale. It will arrive tonight, continue into tomorrow. Arrive late tonight, i should point out, with pockets of moderate rainfall. There is potential of flooding with all the rainfall weve had. It will be slightly breezy tomorrow but we dont expect powerful wind gusts. Its flooding already, much of the Russian River near guerneville, a Flood Warning is in effect on the Russian River i should say until early friday morning. Near guerneville, the river is expected to crest at 6 00 this evening at nearly 38 feet, which is six feet above flood stage. Of course significant flooding is expected from those conditions. The river will drop below flood stage at 2 00 tomorrow afternoon. Heres our forecast appearmatni. Well see the rain move in rather quickly. By 5 00 tomorrow morning, a messy start as we have pockets of moderate to heavy rainfall over much of the bay area and even some snow in the Higher Elevations around mt. Hamilton as cold air will accompany this storm. Late in the day tomorrow, Late Afternoon to early evening well see the storm breaking up and winding down. Well be left with rainfall totals ranging from only a few hundredths of an inch to 0. 4 of an inch to over 0. 6 of an inch in livermore, san jose and mountain view. So on we go to lows tonight. Generally in the low to mid40s, a little chillier in the north bay valleys where lows will drop into the mid to upper 30s. Tomorrows highs will be in