Helping those people stranded in the floodwaters along the Russian River. Jodi hernandez joins us. That river is moving fast. Whats happening there tonight . Reporter its been one wild ride for folks who live here. The river is at its highest level, can you see what thats bhent for people who live here. Youre looking at a peewee golf and arcade. A business that is six feet underwater. Weve seen seens like this all over town, folks here are just doing their very best to get through it. Sections of river road can only be navigated by boat today. The river has come close to cresting, some people woke up to find their homes sur rounded by water. I literally floated out from my backyard, out to river road. My basement and garage got flooded. I figures id take the kayak for a little run and i dont get to do this often. Its been more than a decade since people have seen flooding like this. Neighbors are pulling together. Most have been through it before. Were all making the most of it. Those that have boats come out to help each other out. Helped a gentleman get down the road to his car. And we cope. When neighbors cant help, California National guard is standing by to pitch in. Theyre using their special high water vehicles to evacuate resident residents. And bring needed supplies to those who are stranded. We can help out anyway we can. Were back here live, looking at this business. You can see its about 6 feet under water, now, fortunately the folks who run this business are living quarters is upstairs. So that is safe, but the business obviously is going to need to do a lot of drying. The National Guard will be here overnight. They did about six rescues today, they brought groceries to folks, theyre standing by ready to help us, they need to go back out again. Theyll be here overnight and into tomorrow. Folks doing their best here, just to get through this. Hopefully the water will start receding. Jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. People south of the bay area remain under Evacuation Orders tonight. This is happening along highway 152 at lovers lane Damian Trujillo joins us there live. Just a mess there as well, dami damian . Yeah. The good thing is that the water levels have receded significantly. This ranch was three feet under water, the owner tells me he had to show up at 6 00 in the morning when he heard the news and rescue his horses. A lot of worried folks out here as the creek came rushing through their homes. Rescue crews used a drone to inspect the flooded farmland in holster. Theyre looking for people or farm animals that may need rescuing. I was ankle deep in water on the bottom floor. Aerial footage shows a Swift Rescue Team moving people to dry land. 108 people were evacuated. Almost half of them needed help getting out. They rescued a skoup el that was standing on the roof of their vehicles out of one of the residences down there. A few were taken to the residents center. We want to stay in our house, less than two minutes they came back in saying, the supervisor called and said its mandatory you have to evacuate. The going is to get residents back into their homes as quickly as possible. To do that, we have to make sure that health and safety issues are addressed, make sure those places have power and water, make sure that travel to and from those locations is safe and efficient. The Rushing Water wushed cars against each other, pickup trucks were abandoned on the side of lovers lane, with water marks reaching the door handles. And farm animals that survived the flood, roamed the countryside finding high ground. We showed you livestock at 5 00 that was trying to seek high ground about the livestock is doing fine, they didnt need to be recued, they showed up to feed that livestock. Holster and this area here is filled with a lot of farm fields, good thing for them is that this is not the peak coop season for them. Ive seen some cauliflower and broccoli fields here, those are damaged, it will be interesting to see how much damage it would cause to the farm fields after the dust settles here at holster. Damian trujillo, nbc bay area. We showed you mudslides, rock slides, downed trees. Those are cows, these are three cows that our nbc chopper caught just sitting on that little piece of dry land surrounded by water. If you see any pictures or any more, you want to check it out at nbc bay area. Com. You find raw video from the helicopter as well. You can see some of that devastation. We mentioned throughout the week, all those downed trees and flooding for several days, the newest damage were seeing collapsed roads, dramatic sight here. This roadway simply collapsed. The saturated ground dissolving. Nbc bay areas Elise Kirschner is covering the damage in the east bay for us. Elise . Utility crews have been working around the clock here in the east bay. Let me show you what theyre dealing with, a lot of this muddy mess, downed trees and rising water levels. Weve also seen mudslides and entire roadways collapsed. Its hard to miss. Thats Mother Nature for you. Ray martinez could not avoid the the damage left behind. I thought the storm was nothing too bad. But now it seems like its a real big storm. The big storm caused parts of the road to collapse. Closed indefinitely, drivers will have to use alternate roots to cut through. While you can clearly see where the road collapse, its what you dont see thats causing concerns. There is no support, and more debris is falling below, if there is anyway, even people walking in this area. It can cause more of the road to buckle and collapse below. I would encourage folks to stay away from this area. Utility crews cant work fast enough. Were having to go triage some of the lower priority items. Workers are focusing on trouble spots like this sinkhole that opened after heavy rains washed away parts of a culvert. All while homeowners are digging out. In lafayette, a massive tree crashed into the family room, while marks 88yearold father was standing in the nearby kitchen. Its unbelievable. Reporter also unbelievable, that homeowner was not injured when the tree fell on his home in lafayette. Pg e tells me about 1,000 customers are still in the dark tonight. Reporting live in walnut creek, Elise Kirschner, nbc bay area news. Heres good news for the evening commute. Traffic is finally moving near freemont. Highway 84 was reopened after being closed for most of the day. A section of 84 between sonol and freemont was closed because of the mudslides. Our nbc chopper was there right over niles canyon, youre still advised to drive slowly through the area, rocks may continue to fall for a few more days. This brief break in the storm were having right now is revealing. The cleanup is going to be long and difficult. All afternoon, there is a storm on the horizon. Robert honda joins us live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, more on the destruction. Really hit hard in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Thats right. The collapse of bear creek road here, looks even more ominous at night, with half the road seemingly swallowed up in the darkness with drivers rushing by. Just up the road lives a homeowner who had the damage hit close to home and then into it. The storm was knocking down trees all over the Santa Cruz Mountains this week. One huge oak tree is now being removed. Branches punctured the house and the peace of mind of the homeowner. This is our bonus room and laundry closet this branch came through the closet, through the roof and through the wall, and took out our door right there. So a spot right here. Theres a crack up here, i dont know, nothing is poking through there but weve had water pouring in. Oliver says fortunately his wife and kids are still returning from vacation, he came back early for work. Otherwise, everyone would have been home when the tree came down. If that tree had fallen another few degrees this way. It the bulk of the top of the tree would have caught our roof. Theres so much rain that the ground couldnt soak it up. And the big trees dont have enough root system to hold it up when theres a root bog around it. At least many bear creek residents got news about their water supply. They rushed to finish installing a bypass pipeline here. With the help of travis tree professionals, john oliver hopes to beat the next storm as well. Robert, right along the edge of that collapse. Split right down the middle, a family describes the terrifying moments after this tree came crashing through their home in pacifica. A few spotty showers right now across the north bay, were tracking another round of rain that will start to get here by 6 00 a. M. On thursday. 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Yeah, it real letter was a bad night for this neighborhood. Lets start with the home here on zamora drive in pacifica. Last night, a tree coming crashing down, nearly splitting the home in two. The same night, a power pole comes down on this car. A rough night for the neighborhood, not a Single Person was hurt. It was crazy, it was like a bomb and an earthquake went off at the same time. All of a sudden theres the tree in the living room. Right next door, a power pole fell into a parked car. Neighbors didnt know what was going on. They thought the they heard fireworks, but it was these power lines going down. Everyone got out safely, no one was hurt. It was a shock. Are you lucky . I feel absolutely blessed. Again, nobody hurt in any of this, because the tree fell down on to this house, power lines were hit throughout the entire neighborhood. They were without power for about 24 hours, pg e crews were here through the evening to get some of the houses back on line. Theyll be back tomorrow to get more of this neighborhood switched on. We see the sunshine, but one more little burst of rain before we get to that sunshine, right . Yeah, its not going to be nearly as strong as the past couple storms, it will compound the impacts here, because the ground is so saturated. We have activity developing out ahead of our storm system. Its enough to bring up water on the roadway here in movado, marinwood, and san rafael, take it easy if youre heading out to the Grocery Store in the next 45 minutes, it will be dangerously slick. The new storm system is developing off to the north. Its going to sloelt drop down over the next 18 hours. Theres a lack of moisture with it, as it rides down the coastline, it wont have opportunity to pick up Copious Amounts of wet weather. Heres what to expect with thursdays storm. We expect to see the wet weather arrive by the morning commute. Well be under this elevated flooded concern. And the large rivers, creeks and streams will need to be watched closely. Heres that sunshine, we anticipate it to build in by friday, great news as every single large river stem in northern california, shows a dramatic drop off on friday with this dry weather coming our way. Dry on saturday, sunday, monday, and tuesday. Possibly a wetter weather pattern developing by next wednesday. Weve had a lot of questions about the drought and the impacts. The latest Drought Monitor index continually shows los angeles under exceptional levels of drought, in case you havent heard with our heavy rainfall, we are now out of the drought for most of the north bay, San Francisco and down into santa cruz. Well have more updates on a rainfall impact coming up in 20 minutes. Well see you shortly. There are all sorts of teachable moments in all of this. No power at school . No problem. Students had to get a little resourceful here. The kids were okay with the whole thing. It was like awesome. What could be cooler than going to school in the dark . No lights, no power, no heat. Students felt the full brunt of the storm today after the winds blew out their power tuesday night. Weve been working closely with pg e, theyve been in contact with us almost hourly to let us know the status of the outage. The principal alerted parents via email last night, and text message this morning. We got a text message saying the power is out, but were still having school. And wear something warm, the heat it out too. Okay, this is going to be interesting about. I guess it was a little different. The powers out, and just like, guys, chillax, we had this in second grade. The fact that tonight was a light rain day, the children would be safe, there was ample light in the room, it was a warm day. It was really fun, we got to do math the Old Fashioned way. Awesome. California needs the rain. How about all the rain lately . I think its really good. Because the drought. Peggy bunker, nbc bay area news. That little guy knew about the drought, impressive. Out of the public eye. For months, well tell you about the new job, San Francisco police chief. A convicted murderer was executed today. The full story is on our website. Texas performed the first execution of 2017, a convicted murderer was executed today. The full story we posted on our website. The world seeshryes champion chicago cubs are scheduled to visit the white house on monday. This is a quick turnaround, the cubs wanted to be greeted and honored by president obama before he leaves office. Its beautiful. Was it a hard place to get to . laughs it wasnt too bad. With the chase mobile app, jimmy chin can master depositing his hard earned checks in a snap. Easy to use Chase Technology for whatever youre trying to master. Reservoir from the nbc bay area chopper. It looks like a rushing river. The Los Gatos Creek trail and u want to give you a look at the reservoir, it looks like a rushing ringing. The trail and park closed today because of the flooding there. All four south bay reservoirs are at capacity. Not far from that reservoir. More problems along highway 17. This is new video from our nbc chopper, late today. A lot of people stuck in this traffic, even at this hour. This is southbound 17 on the right side of your screen there. You see the backup, thats before you get to los gatos. The problem, a rock slide by sugarloaf road. Traffic is open near the slide, and along 17. One lane of 17 remains closed at this hour. Greg sur is now a security adviser for the warriors. The warriors are happy to have him on board. You may remember he resigned last may. Protests over officer involved shootings and news of some officers exchanging racist and homophobic text s he was asked o step down. The future of the raiders, the nfl owners met today in new york city after the meeting, art rooney jr. Said the they could move to vegas. 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Its more than just health care. Its life care. We remain in a microclimate weather alert. And more rain is on the way. Heres a look at our satellite radar. We remain in a micro climate weather alert. More rain is on the way. What youre looking at right now is the satellite radar. Lets get to jeff ranieri, this new batch of rain is enough to cause damage in the area. There could be isolated flooding issues, especially along the riverbanks that were following right now. Produced about 5 100 of an inch so far. Right back to mirabal heights. Thats where the Flood Warning is in effect until 11 30 at night. The Russian River will be cresting over the next couple hours at 37. 8 feet. It will likely stay in flood stage through tomorrow morning, then by friday, a dramatically drops off, and thats when people along the Russian River will notice this huge decrease, in terms of the rainfall overall, looking at what weve seen in the rain and why our flood threat is so elevated right now, since october 1st, santa rosa has picked up 29. 65 inches of rainfall. Thats 177 of normal. What about the reservoirs, heres an overall look, major california reservoirs anywhere from 33 to 86 of capacity, a lot of the lower numbers in Southern California north bay sitting at 100 of all reservoirs. Were tracking this next storm, how much rainfall well likely get, details in 20 minutes. Hollis sister is one area thats been hit very hard. An Evacuation Order is still in effect. Whats the situation there right now . Things are a lot calmer. The fact that we had no rain helped out the situation here, a lot of concern here on lovers lane, it was quite chaotic here earlier this morning in the outskirts of holster in san benito county. Residents were being rescued from their homes. They had to