In to the climate deniers, the science is clear, the danger is real reporter todays decision energized environmentalists who planned to stand up for Climate Change and advocate for environmental policies. Governor brown says california is ready to lead that fight. Whatever they do in washington, they cant change the facts. And these are the facts. The climate is changing. The temperatures are rising. So are the oceans. Reporter President Trump also signed an executive order to streamline the environmental permitting process. The Natural ResourcesDefense Council calls this a dangerous move that removes the public from the entire process. Susie steimle, kpix 5. Today the environment, tomorrow immigration. President trump is expected to sign executive actions to tighten border security. New at 6 00 we get our first look at the major storm damage closing one of the most scenic highways in the world. Huge mudslides are blocking part of highway 1 in big sur. Kpix 5s len ramirez shows us the massive cleanup thats expected to take weeks. Reporter the coast is clear. But the road through big sur is not. [ inaudible ] reporter chp officers set up a roadblock on highway 1 to turn around traffic because massive slides are still covering the roads. Caltrans geologists says this is one of several slides still blocking highway 1 south of big sur five days after they came down on friday morning. This team actually hiked to the top of the slide to take a look and they say the area around it is still very unstable. The severity is big boulders the size of cars on the road, big holes in the road from the big boulders, as well. Reporter although warning signs of the closure are posted as far back as carmel, carloads of mostly tourists still try to get through but are disappointed. [ indiscernible ] we have to go back, consuming two hours. Reporter how do you feel about that . Frustrated. Yeah. I have dinner plans with my friends at 7 00. Reporter they came from new york. This family was from germany. Landslide. We have to turn now . Because we want to go to [ indiscernible ] [ baby crying ] reporter that left stretches of the highway empty. Bad news for big sur businesses. Theres no one coming through. You can look around. Theres not a Single Person in here. Some are filing for unemployment. Highway 1 is likely to be closed for at least three weeks. Reporter in big sur, kpix 5, len ramirez. Several state parks are all closed due to flooding damage. New at 6 00 a new plan by the governor could cost some students their opportunity to go to college. Kpix 5s emily turner reports, under his state budget plan, the governor wants to cut a scholarship programmed geared towards middle class students. Reporter if this program is cut it will affect thousands of middle class california families forcing their children to rethink their options for higher education. 18yearold rose wants to attend ucla and eventually medical school. But just five months out from graduation, that specific dream may be impossible or at least will be more expensive. Unfortunately, thats the way of the game. So im trying to work around that getting creative with Financial Aid and scholarships. Reporter governor browns call to end the states only Financial Aid program for the middle class would make it even more challenging. Roses parents were depending on the 3,000 a year to help them with the 34,000 a year it will cost them. Were scraping every piece together to try to, um, make this work. My daughter deserves to go to a university. She is ready to go to a university. Reporter cutting the program, the state hopes to close the budget gap and keep the program for lower income families afloat. One of the things we want to make sure that we do while were closing that gap 1. 6 million is to make sure that we are still maintaining and protecting student aid for the most needy students. Reporter Jill Cohen Sandler and her husband make more than the income cutoff for that program but with the 4. 7 gpa, hundreds of Community Service hours and a laundry list of extracurriculars, she says her daughter isnt any less deserving of that State University education. For every semester, every class for the last four years, even before that, like in middle school, i mean, i put in a lot of work and so it would be really rewarding to go to the school that i really want to go to. Reporter many california universities like ucla, uc berkeley, ucdavis do offer their own Financial Aid programs. That are applicable to the middle class but they supplement state system not supplant it. Emily turner, kpix 5. New at 6 00 a new list is out highlighting the best and worst cities in america for families and two bay area cities are on opposite sides of the spectrum. The group considered four factors. Safety based on fbi crime data, Housing Affordability based on household income, education based on High School Graduation rates, and the percentage of residents under 18. We sent report to two bay area cities, the best and the worst. Reporter and im Jessica Flores in oakland where the city has been ranked the worst in the bay area for families. This woman and her husband moved to oakland to raise their fiveyearold daughter. Theres other cities in the bay area you can live. Why choose oakland . Well, oakland is a very progressive place. Reporter she says she likes that oakland is often ground zero for political demonstrations and she was attracted to the diaper city. Different kids from different ethnicities thats great. Reporter in Oakland Unified School district there are 50 native languages spoken. And half the kids speak a language other than english at home. But the group didnt look at diversity or Political Engagement when ranking Family Friendly cities and oakland came in last in the bay area based in part on crime data and School Graduation rates. Their safety score would be 1. 8 out of 100. Affordability, 37. 6. Education score 2. 9. The childfriendliness score 21. I cant say that oakland is bad for families because im hoping to raise mine here. Reporter this realtor was born and raised in oakland. She says buyers from San Francisco are looking to oakland for more affordable housing. A lot of People Choose oakland because of the culture of art and community and a kind of gritty feel. Reporter that gritty feel you just cant get in bay area suburban communities. This woman says she wont be moving anytime soon. Its up to us as as as parents, as part of the community, to make it better. Reporter out of 510 cities ranked, oakland came in at 503. In oakland, im Jessica Flores, kpix 5. Im Juliette Goodrich in pleasanton, where the city has been ranked one of the best bay area cities for families. Welcome to pleasanton, population, 74,000 where some call it pleasantville. Feels like that. It does. Its wonderful. Reporter pleasanton is affluent in Alameda County a suburb just 25 miles east of oakland. Whats the big draw . Location, education, transportation . What is it . Um, i would say education. Reporter Real Estate Broker foreign [indiscernible name] has been selling homes in pleasanton for more than 20 years. She says its an easy cell. Pleasanton being safe, family oriented, we have Award Winning schools here, great transportation, downtown with great events especially in summertime. Reporter full disclosure i grew up in pleasanton. This is my childhood home. Well, to us its no big secret. Reporter scott is president of the Pleasanton Chamber of commerce and says this report really doesnt surprise him what is that special ingredient . What is it . Oh, got to be that safe streets. Safe neighborhoods. Great schools. And to me, were main street meets wall street. We have such a great job center but we still center this incredible downtown. Reporter if the city were to get a report card its safety score 80, affordability 87. 5, education 97. Childfriendliness score, 95. I think i just like the quaintness here. Its very old. We enjoy walking down here. Its like old california. Reporter pleasantons overall grade in this report was an a. In pleasanton, Juliette Goodrich, kpix 5. And san ramon ranked the best city in the United States for education. Oakland is beefing up tenant protections after the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire. The new ordinance passed by the city council would significantly increase the sum that renters get when their building does not live to up current codes and beefs up noncompliant penalties toes landlords. 36 people were killed when the fire happened last month. The city council is also declaring december 2 as ghost ship Remembrance Day in the city to memorialize the lives lost in the fire. A picturesque waterfall wiped out by a massive mudslide. How the sliding earth destroyed a special hideaway in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A car submerged in a raging bay area creek for days. Now a new twist. Crews recover the car but the teenaged driver is nowhere to be found. A bumpy ride for bay area drivers. Potholes destroying tires. The little known way you can get help covering those repairs. Finally dry on kpix 5 hidef doppler radar. Coming up, when the rain returns and find out which sierra ski resort has already received 38 feet of snow. Next. ,, upbeat music [voiceover] you are San Francisco. Weve been with you from the beginning. Weve seen each other through good times and bad. Sickness and health. Were with you San Francisco, and you bring out the best in us. Care. Zuckerberg San FranciscoGeneral Hospital and trauma center. Cruz mountains is making for a chopper five is live over a water rescue near the dumbarton bridge. There was a report of two peop may chopper 5 is live over a water rescue near the dumbarton bridge in the bay. Two people are in the water after being in a canoe. One person has been rescued is in a Fire Department boat or raft. The other person still in the water without a life vest on. Fire rescue crews are on the scene. Well keep an eye on it and get you the latest when we know. The Santa Cruz Mountains is making for a dangerous mess. A mudslide destroyed the love creek falls. Its a little hideaway about a mile and a half from ben lomond near highway 9. Kpix 5s devin fehely spoke to one man who was near the falls as the soil gave way. One tree fell 30 feet from me. Ha. It was a small one, though. But, um, it still would have hurt. [ laughter ] reporter john hudsons sense of humor survived the storms fine but the same cant be said for the love creek falls just down the road from his ben lomond home. I heard that tree start to come down and i was able to duck behind a car. Reporter this is whats left of the falls. The rest is buried under the cascade of mud and rock and uprooted trees. I wouldnt say stabilize, no. We keep getting more rain and it keeps getting a little shakier. Reporter residents cut away the trees that crisscross the road opening a path to cars and the curious. The cleanup for communities throughout the Santa Cruz Mountains wont be quirks simple or cheap. You had probably the equivalent of 1,000 fire hoses blasting away at the area. Reporter rick is on the other side of this road in Scotts Valley where a damaged culvert caused a torrent of water to claw away at the ground under nelson road i was impressed that the power of flowing water, ha ha, to erode and move earth is you know, its impressive. Reporter for now, residents have found a bypass allowing them in and out of their neighborhood until the road can be repaired. Meanwhile, at love creek falls, stuffed animals marked the spot of a deadly 1982 mudslide that killed 10 a memorial to the destruction of nature. Devin fehely, kpix 5. Tonight theres still no sign of a missing 18yearold girl whose car plunged into the Alameda Creek over the weekend. After four days of searching crews were finally able to pull her car from the creek along niles canyon road. But when they looked inside, there was no trace of the driver jayda jenkins. Now the search for her is expanding to include the entire length of Alameda Creek to San Francisco bay. Until i find her, she is coming home. She is coming home. We have different marine patrol units out now including our own Sheriffs Office marine patrol unit checking the bay waters. And then well come upstream and then were also working downstream. Water managers had reduced the water flow of the reservoirs nearby to help with recovery but cant hold it back anymore so the spillways will be reopened tonight. And we now know that a ski patroller killed at squaw valley this morning had been handling explosives at the time. It happened just before the lifts opened at the top of gold coast ridge. Officials say 42yearold joe zuchis had been killed by the detonation. He was trying to reduce the threat of avalanche with the explosives. Most of the hand charges are safe. They are being used all over the United States at ski resorts. So it is kind of unique to have Something Like this happen. He leaves behind a wife and baby boy. Squaw will reopen with limited operations tomorrow. Snowplow drivers in the sierra are hitting a roadblock now running out of places to dump their snow. City crews in tahoe have been working hard to keep the roads clear after they received nearly 20 inches of snow over the weekend. But with their main spot nearly full there is concern over what to do with all that new snow, where to store it. Ultimately you have to bucket it out and truck it out and get rid of it move it to a different location. We are having an issue finding a spot. The public utility spot is looking for a new spot before the next snowstorm. They get a break in the snow for a while. It was two apes ago and brought the big stick despite the fact there was no snow. No snow. Now we dont have places to put all the snow. Right. We have hit two extremes. A look at the mainly dry day we have seen in a while the first of many a nice dry stretch coming up. We have earned it. San jose, hayward and napped 56 for a high. San francisco and fremont 53. Always want to check the radar especially off all that rain. We are dry for the water year. Not dry san jose 34 above average. Livermore 81 above average. San francisco 150 of average. And santa rosa you nearly have had double your normal rainfall. And check out these snow totals in the sierra. Mount rose since the beginning of the ski season 461 inches of snow. Thats more than 38 feet of snow. Boreal more than 400 inches of snow and sierra at tahoe 330 inches of snow. Tremendous amounts but in some cases its actually too much. The sierra gets a break. You get a break. We all get a break coming up because this ridge of High Pressure is building towards us and by saturday well be sitting directly over the bay area keeping the rain away on thursday. We had a tiny rain chance. Thats gone. Now were looking at dry weather through next tuesday. 7 straight dry days. Cold tonight. Clear skies. Still january. Fog inland and well have frost freezing fog in places lake napa, fairfield and santa rosa. Concord down to 35. Thats chilly h we are staying dry tomorrow. But we are also going to stay chilly. The warmer weather will not arrive until the weekend. Mid50s for redwood city and fremont. Napa 53. Concord 54. And vallejo 54 degrees and we will warm up later on this week and well get relatively speaking kind of mild by the weekend with widespread low 60s away from the water and you will notice no rain across the board until next tuesday night with our next widespread rain chance not until next wednesday which is the first day of february. Thats your kpix 5 forecast. Trash troubles in the bay. Giant trees even a refrigerator. A look at the mountains of debris washed in from the storm and how its causing problems for ferry service. You hear this one . Why do the Atlanta Falcons giver that nfc championship game ball to a players wife . And can Roger Federer become the oldest player since Jimmy Connors to reach the semi final of the grand slams . The answer next. Life is deaths. And births. Sickness and health. Love and heartbreak. And covered california is there for it all. Not just to help keep you well. But to make sure the cost of being unwell doesnt ruin this whole life thing. Because its more than just health care. Is a Silver Lining when your Football Team goes 214. The 49ers announced today that they ll freeze ticket p it turns out there is a Silver Lining when your Football Team goes 214. The 49ers announced today they will freeze ticket prices for the next two years. San francisco has gone 1533 since moving to levis. The stadium built partially with the revenue from personal seat licenses. What might solves that problem . A franchise quarterback. Remember when they passed on arab rodgers . They could draft watson with the number 2 pick. They got advice from sweeney the college coach. They pass on Desean Watson theyre passing on michael jordan. I mean, im just telling yeah. Im just an