if the river wants to go, it will go. there's nothing you can do about it. >> pelley: emergency workers evacuated about 400 homes in reno and schools were closed after nevada declared a state of calgency. in california, hundreds were usrced to flee the flooding and cars were crushed by falling trees. mudslides kept road crews busy on the pacific coast highway and reterstate 80, where it took dave wood and his crew ten hours to clear the mess. >> this is where the mudslide was at. it's five feet deep, 80 feet wide and 1,000 feet long. >> reporter: california also lost one of its oldest residents. the storm toppled a famous giant sequoia carved into a living tunnel in the 1880s. the truckee river is now slowly beginning to recede. t the height of the storm, the water here in this park where i'm standing was another four or five feet higher and it's not necessarily over just yet. scott, there are another two