The water has eroded a several feet of canyon road. Bob steele has lived in the area for more than 50 yearssot Bob Steele Fairfax resident 106114 and along porteous avenue, residents are still cleaning up mud that filled the street tuesdaysot Dylan Eastman fairfa x resident 120125while the mud seems to have disapated the water from the nearby hillside continues to pour through the streets. 133 the streets also happening now in the north bay crews are working to remove standing water on highway 37 in novato. This has been an issue every time weve seen big storms this winter. Caltrans has been out all day. Trying to pump the water off the highway. All lanes are closed in the westbound direction from atherton avenue to highway 101. One of two eastound lanes is open in that area. Caltrans is working to prevent futher flooding on that stretch of roadway. No word yet on when highway 37 will reopen. And likely not soon. With tomorrows heavy rain in the forecast. aaaaaa also on the storm watch. Theres been some progress in moving a huge rock and mud slide on highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains. Traffic is managing to get through. As crews work to clear the northbound lanes open beforethe next storm moves in. Kron fours rob fladeboe is live at the scene. How does it look rob. . aaaaaanats nicknamed the spider because it has several spider because nicknamed the nats aaaaaanats nicknamed the spider because it has several appendagelike attenuators, four wheelsand a big scoop at the end of another arm, the relatively small but powerful excavator had no trouble crawling up the steep slide. A tough machine for a tough job. Sot devin borr caltransthe slide is very unstable. Still moving in fact. Several big trees had to be knocked downbefore the spider was deployed. Its a slow process. There are hundreds of ton of material to be moved. The excavator working from the top down. Sot devin borr caltranssure enough, the spider knocked free several big boulders like this one. Traffic, which has been moving in both directions, sharing the southbound lanes, was brought to a halt everyso often just in case. People happy to get through at all. Sot mosthe driver of this truck escaped serious injury when the slide occurred on tuesday and its actually a larger version of the same slide that crushed another vehicle here last month. As another storm looms caltrans and the spider have their work cut for them this time. Sot devin borr caltrans s kron fours weather teem has issued a Storm Tracker four weather alert for tomorrows round of heavy rain, strong winds and renewed flooding concerns. Chief meterologist Brittney Shipp is tracking this storm for us. Brit when is the rain expected to start . Thursday is another strong storm. Weather alert issued. There is little you can do when Mother Nature makes a monster move. When the hillside wants to go. It goes. This is video from yesterday capturing the moment when a hillside above this home came crashing down. Again. As you can see part of the home had already been slammed by the loose rocks and mud above. Tonight. Kron4s Chuck Clifford is back in the neighborhood to check on the clean up. In the east baya downed tree and power lines have closed a stretch of diablo road in danville. Police say the large tree fell sometime early this morning. Bringing down power lines as it fell. While pg e crews make repairs. People who live in the area were being allowed to use the road. But others were being turned back. It wasnt clear when the road will be fully reopened. Our storm coverage continues online at kron four dot com. You can find a list of other road closures and a look at some of the storm damage around the bay area. Theres also live radar to track the upcoming storm. Its all on kron four dot com. Two heros spring into action after a driver crashes into an rain swollen east bay creek. Coming up on kron four news at five. We hear from the good samaritans. Who saved a young mans life. Then, were learning new details about the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire in oakland. What city officials knew about the building before the fire broke out. And next, theres a pothole problem in the east bay sending drivers home in tow tucks. Where this is happening after the break. Its okay to cry, right . No more we dont want anymore [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh everyday price and no extra monthly fees, unlike cable. Speeds up to 45 megs, for 30 a month. As drivers have almost certainly noticed. Westbound 580 is plagued by a giant pothole tonight. The two right lanes at greenville road in livermore are blocked. The pothole formed sometime this morning. Leading to long delays and backups during the commute. At one point the backup extended all the way to tracy. Crews say the lanes wont reopen until about 9 oclock tonight. Also in the east bay. 22 people were safely evacuated from a flooded Castro Valley golf course. Which sit off the san leandro creek. It happened just before noon, at a flooded road at the Redwood Canyon golf course. It was a mess. Turning into a swampy area about 300 feet wide. The people who had to be moved were all inside a golf course restaurant. The golf course was closed for the day. And operators will monitor the creek will be monitored overnight. People in one Community Came together to clear a highway blocked by downed trees and a mudslide. But it wasnt just any higway. It was the aaonly way one community can get to and from their homes. The tree came down just after one this afternoon on highway 35 just after south highway 84 in sky londa. Near portola valley. It blocked both directions and caltrans crews were too busy to respond to the scene because of the storm. So a group of six people who live in the area. Brought out their own chainsaws and cut the large tree to let cars pass. At around two in the afternoon. Caltrans crews managed to get to the area and cleared the mudslide. The highway was back open shortly after. Heavy rain and strong winds caused a tree to crash into a San Francisco home. Early this morning on locksley avenue and lawton street. The tree fell on a home. And two parked cars. Public works officials cleared away the debris. And are now preparing for the next storm due tomorrow. All this rain is creating treacherous road conditions. Cars have been skidding and sometimes crashing. And some drivers have been put in life threatening situations. Kron 4s Haaziq Madyun. Reports tonight on an accident where the driver survived. Because this apparent weather related storm. Brought out the best in one man. A driver loses control of his vehicle in the rain, flips over and lands submerged in a fast rising creekas soon as i got close i realized the car was upside down in the creek and was pretty seriousit happened tuesday at around 2 45pm on Highland Road near san ramon. Clayton wiedemann was working near by, heard the crash and was the first person on the sceneafter trying to pry the door open i heard someone kicking at the door from the inside so i knew that somebody was moving around in therei thought the poor whoever was in there was in troubleclayton wiedemanns friend dan rich was the next person who came to help. He says the Rainy Weather intensified the life threatening situation, so they had to act fastbecause the water was really really coming downwe had some tools to try to pry the doorthis is a photo of the tool they had on handwell it is a pickax, its a big ol pick ax used for lifting rocksthe windows were under water so i couldnt see inside or anythingi said you know, we got no time to waste, so i just reared back and gave it a whack real good, you could hear the window implode inside and we just started grabbing everything we could, i gues one of the things i grabbed was him, but it happened so fast, he ended up on the bank before we knew itchp investigators say the 20yearold driver suffered only minor injuries. Thanks to these two bay area heroes we did, you know, what anybody should doit was happening so fast you dont even think about it, you just get in there and get moving you never know what you will do in a life or death situation like this, all you can hope for is the courage these two had when the time came for them to find out. Haaziq madyun kron4news the tahoe area is a mess. Because of ongoing flooding. The warm rains have been melting tahoes snowpack. Theres lots of standing water. The ch p put it this way in a tweet the rain is wreaking havoc on our localneighborhoods. Officers have been helping people whose homes have flooded. And residents are being asked to pick up sandbags from local fire stations. A lot of them know the drill since parts of tahoe suffered the same problem last month. The soda springs area has been especially hard hit. The latest storm has dropped up to 3 inches of rain around lake tahoe. Its also triggered mudslides and forced some roads to close. Just one example the nevada Highway Patrol had to close the mount rose highway in both directions at incline village. Thursday is another strong storm. Weather alert issued. Still ahead. Democratic efforts to stall President Trumps cabinet picks are taking a contentious turn. Why senator Elizabeth Warren is silenced. Then, Major Concerns tonight in guerneville as the area struggles with major flooding. And now people there are bracing for another storm. You know how painful heartburn can be. For fastacting, longlasting relief, try doctor recommended gaviscon. It quickly neutralizes stomach acid and helps keep acid down for hours. Relieve heartburn with fast acting, longlasting gaviscon. And helps keep acid down for hours. I we worked with pg eof to save energy because wenie. Wanted to help the school. They would put these signs on the door to let the teacher know you didnt cut off the light. The teachers, they would call us the energy patrol. So they would be like, here they come, turn off your lights those three young ladies were teaching the whole school about energy efficiency. We actually saved 50,000. And thats just one school, two semesters, three girls. Together, were building a better california. Theres new evidence tonight that the city of oakland knew about illegal parties at the ghost ship artist collective long before last decembers deadly fire. Records released today show that Oakland Police and firefighters had visited the scene dozens of times in recent years. Natthe cluttered ghost ship warehouse was a death trap for 36 partygoers. Tonight we know that nearly two years earlier, Oakland Police responded to reports of another illegal rave on the premises. Just released documents reveals. Officer Hector Chavez says he was flagged down in the Early Morning of march first, 2015, by someone complaining of drug and alcohol sales. In the heavily edited police report, chavez says he did not cite anyone. And that other officers had to be called when 20 people refused to leave the scene of what he called a 24 hour art studio. A month before, Police Responded to another call in a tenants dispute over what the report called illegal shared housing. The officer mediated the dspute. In all, the records show there were Eighteen Police calls in ten years to the warehouse address and the vacant lot next door. Firefighters also responded to three calls, all for emergency medical treatmentone call was for a fire outside the building. There are no reports of Building Inspections in the past ten years. As we have reported before, city inspectors visited the site weeks before but were unable to gain access. The buildings principal tenant, derick almena, has denied any responsibility for the fire. Coming up, President Trump continues his attacks on anyone who disagrees with his temporary travel ban. What words he used today as an Appeals Court still ponders the question. 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You can see just how high the water has gotten. Big trucks trying to drive through the water. And some people even brought out their kayaks. And as kron fours Terisa Estacio shows us. The seemingly contant rain is ruining the winter for so many people who live and work in the guerneville area. Te a mudslide has partly closed a residential road in greenbrae. The 200block of via la cumbre is closed in both directions. And it could beas long as 7 days before its reopened. Police say only residents and emergency vehicles will have access to the road. Other drivers are being asked to avoid the area. The barrage of storms this winter. Have damaged lake orovilles spillway in butte county. This video shows chunks of concrete have eroded from the spillway. The hole is 200footlong. And 30 foot deep. The department of Water Resources stopped the flow of water out of the reservoir yesterday. So inspections could happen. Experts say there is no danger of the dam itself falling. But repairs to the spillway need to be made. Lake oroville still only at 80 percent capacity. So there is plenty of space for runoff to fill the reservoir. Thursday is another strong storm. Weather alert issued. New video is coming in from yesterdays destructive tornadoes in the south. The National Weather service now says that at least four tornadoes hit louisiana. Although the governor argues there were as many as seven. There was also one in mississippi. A woman in the new orleans area says she and her 8weekold baby were actually tossed around by a tornado. And her shocked reaction was on facebook live. They were in a trailer at her job when it began coming apart. She says she had strapped the baby into her car seat and hung on for dear life. Never letting go. They suffered only minor injuries. The storm system damaged dozens of homes and businesses and left thousands without power. And still head. The president pushes hard for approval. But some members of congress are puttting up a big fight. The lastest twist in the battle to get support for one of the president s men. But first. A look at the closing numbers from wall street. Utilities, real estate and other stocks that pay big dividends are the stock market winners today. The dow fell 36 points. The nasdaq added 8. Rose just over a point no decision yet on President Trumps travel ban. The ninth circut court of appeals in San Francisco announced this morning its ruling would not come today. At issue is a lower courts decision that stopped implimentation of the president s excecutive order that effectively stops refugees and people from seven predominately muslim countries from entering the u. S. The ninth circuit courts decision will be made by a panel of three judges. At a meeting in washington this morning, the president lashed out calling yesterdays Court Hearing disgraceful. One of the justices asked bluntly if the president could just order a ban on muslims. The Justice Department lawyer argued that is not what the excutive order says. Another justice questioned whether the government had any evidence that connects the seven countries with terrorism and suggested the appeal may be premature. No word on when the court will issue its ruling but a spokesperson for the Court Previously said it would come this week. Democrats have been doing whatever they can to stall some of President Trumps cabinet picks from being confirmed and the latest battle over trumps attorney general pick Jeff Sessions took a contentious turn on the senate floor. From our partnership with cnn. Scott mclean has this report from washington. Sen. Elizabeth Warren D MassachusettsMitch Mcconnell said i was out of line and shut me up. Democrats are trying to stand in the way of some of Donald Trumps cabinet nominations but in the process, senator Elizabeth Warren was asked to sit down. Sen. Mitch mcconnell R Senate Majority Leader she was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted. Warren was reading from a 1986 letter from Martin Luther king juniors widow, urging congress to block Jeff Sessions thennomination to the federal bench. Now senator sessions is trumps pick for attorney general. Senate majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said warren impugned sessions, breaking senate rules. Warren did finish the letter, outside the Senate Chamber on facebook live. Sen. Elizabeth War