Thursday is another strong storm. Weather alert issued. Our Team Coverage continues tonight in guerneville. A rising Russian River has aleady caused serious flooding. Now with another storm ahead people who live there are bracing for more problems. Kron 4s alecia reid is live. Alecia how worried is the community . Theyre pretty concerned. This is actually the Russian River behind me creeping into a parking lot. With tomorrows rain, its expected to get even higher. Pkgnatsot its Mother Naturelow lying areas are taking a beating. Sot everyones worried. But theres not much you can really do. Theres only so much sandbags can holdwater levels on flooded roadways continue to increase. People in this Small Community have weathered many storms. So they prepare themselves as best as they can. The worst downpour they can remember was back in 1986 when the entire downtown was under water. Sot it went all the way up and covered everything. There was no downtown or houses30 years later, flooding is still an issue. Those on Higher Elevations have other concerns. Emily lewis sot there are people closest to the river that are scared about their properties, but people that live by the mountains are worried about trees coming down. We can lose houses, cars through all the rain this winter, its business as usual for andornos pizza. Even for folks that cant leave their homes. Sot most of our deliveries are down roads that are closed because theyre down by the riverstandupwith all the rain this week, families are seeing a lot more flooding than theyve seen in a while. So theyre hoping tomorrow wont leave too much destruction behind. Reporting live from guerneville. The napa river is also on the rise. The river is below flood stage tonight but that could change tomorrow. There have been many reports of flooding all over napa county. This is video from yountville which was taken earlier today. You can see just a massive pool of water. Partially submerging a tree. Happening now more than 24 hours after a mudslide hit a vehicle in the santa cruz mountains. Two out of four lanes on highway17 remain closed. This is causing a traffic nightmare for drivers. Kron4s jr stone is live tonight where repair work is still underway. Jr is there any estimate for a reopening . Steve, im told this will be closed at least through the weekend possibly longer. If we get more rain then we could be talking about a lot longer. As to what this area looks like tonight. You can see cleanup crews are working around the clock to try and fix this section of the highway. Day two of what some are calling a traffic nightmare through the santa cruz mountains. Bumper to bumper traffic as many tried to get home wednesday evening. Sot today it set me back at least two and a half hourscleanup crews are working as fast as they can to try and get as much as they can done before thursdays next storm. Jane booth uses highway 17 to get to and from work. She says the adway has been a mess this year. Sot this is the fourth time this year we got stuck in traffic along highway 17 trying to get home. Chp says two of the four lanes will likely be closed through the weekend at the very least. Creating more of this. Sot something needs to be done they need to do more work against the banks but you cant help Mother Nature it does what it has to do. Those with caltrans say that the hillside is still moving as they do this work. Jane says shes concerned that that movement could pick up with thursdays expected rain. A reason why she is evaluating her work situation for the day. Sot ya i dont know what to do tomorrow if i should try to work at home if i should chance coming in its not looking good. Im probably asking for another long commute if i try to go in tomorrow and out here live this evening you can see the work still being done. That excavator being used to clear that dirt out of the area. Keep in mind they were able to keep working even after it started drizzling today. They hope to do the same tomorrow but if the rain starts coming down hard. That is when theyd be forced to stop the work being done. Live near scotts valley, j. R. Stone kron 4 news. All lanes of westbound 580 in livermore just reopened an hour ago. Road crews repaired a giant pot hole that opened in the westbound direction near greenville road. It happened this morning causing major traffic delays. At one point the backup extended all the way to tracy. In novato one eastbound lane of highway 37 is back open between highway 101 and atherton avenue. Road crews are still trying to remove standing water. Which forced the closure. The westbound direction remains closed tonight with no estimated time of reopening. Several schools in the north bay. Both public and private. Will be closed tomorrow because of the weather. Emergency officials say, severe rain and winds are expected during the morning commute. And will cause traffic gridlock, flash flood warnings and landslides. Some of the schools affected are in the larkspur school district, the Mill Valley School district. And the Sausalito Marin city school district. To see if your school has been affected by the closures. Log on to kron fourdotcom to see a complete list. A moment of desperation played out on Facebook Live. It happened after a mudslide in los gatos. A mother turns to social media to call for help. Her family was just one of many forced out by a mudslide. Tonight kron4s Hermela Aregawi talks to the family. Nat videoeverything just got washed away with mud. I i. Im trying to get a hold of everybody. The lines are down. The rays home is in a remote part of los gatos. When a mudslide wiped out part of their home, jennifer ray takes to Facebook Live during tuesdays storm to spread the wordand call for help. It was 8 in the morning. And she and her husband john were in bed with their 4 and 2 year old when the ground started to move. Sot jennifer rayyou just saw all this stuff coming down. All this mud and water and trees and all this other debris. And we just ran outside and i just kept screaming check jessica jessica. My siter. Jessica has a 9 month old and is pregnant. She lives in a second home on the property. Sot jennifer raymy mom was carrying my daughter. She fell and then we just ran as fast as we could to the jeep and piled everyone in. In the process of escaping the slide. Jennifer, her mom and john fell and injured their legs. Sot john rayyou look outside and you watch a lot of hard work. A lot of sacrifice. And things you do for your children literally getting washed away. In the third home on the property. Lives jennifers dad. Sot jennifer that home was my dads dream. He always wanted him and us to all be on one property. With tears in his eyes he just was saying. All my dreams are being washed away right now. Standupthe family is staying here in san mateo while they wait out tomorrows storm. After that, theyll return to their property to see what if anything is left. The silver lining. Community is coming together to help the rays cover their out of pocket costs. A friend has set up a gofund me page. Which we will include on our website. If youd like to help you can go there to do that. Reporting in san mateo ha, k4 news. New at ten we look into what you need to know. If you find yourself put in danger by a mudslide. Grant lodes is has the steps you can take in advance of a weather related emergency. Weve had mudslides all over the bay area this wet winter. But yesterday. Stunning video. Of a house getting crushed by one. Look and listen to this. A landslide destroyed that san rafael home yesterday morning. Then you see a tree come down. The two story house was inundated by a wall of mud that tore through its walls, snapped support beams and compromised the foundation. Everyone got out okay. And coming up in about five minutes. Kron4 s Charles Clifford reports from that neighborhood where other homes are also now uninhabitable. But first. What to do if you think you live in an area that may be prone to landslides. If youre at the top or bottom of a steep hil or mountain. That could be a problem during or after lots of rain. The usgs says its imperative that you recognize the warning signs. Are there new cracks in the ground or sidewalk or drievway around your home. Has soil around the foundation moved or has your home shifted at all. Just like an earthquake. Ha ve a family plan. Talk about what youll do if one happens. Have water, food, batteries, flashlights. Stay alert and awake. Lots of mudslide deaths happen overnight. Listen for cracking trees. Or rocks hitting each other. Have a strong flashlight to look for warning signs. And if you are out driving. And this applies to everyone. Watch the road for collapsed pavement, mud, fallen rocks and other indications the ground is moving. Finally. Drive to Higher Ground if a mudslide starts coming. The usgs list of tips is long. To read them all. Weve posted a link on our website. Kron4. Com. Just search for the san rafael hillside story. Pam steve. Coming up newly relased documents about the oakland ghost ship warehouse. What city officials knew about the building. Before last years deadly fire then a driver loses contorl of his car. And ends submerged in a fast rising creek. Tonight meet the two men who saved his life. The storm left nearly 2 hundred people without power in walnut creek. It is just one of the Power Outages we saw today throughout the bay area. Kron4s Lydia Pantazes is live in the east bay. Lydia, any word on when their power will be restored. We showed you this video earlier in the newscast. A mudslide has destroyed a home along a quiet street in san rafael. And tonight more homes are in danger. As kron4s Charles Clifford shows us the trouble spots, as another storm rolls in. Natswednesday evening, this devastated home along Mountain View avenue in san rafael remained taped off for safety reasons. So far, no effort has been made to remove the debris partly because heavy rain is in the immediate forecast and theres a good chance that the damage could get worse. The hillside behind the house is now mostly exposed dirt. The grass and shrubs that had been holding the soil together. Are gone. The two homes on either side of the house remain are red tagged. The people who live in this home are staying with family. Juan alvarez and his family live in the red tagged house on the other side. At this point neither family knows when they will be able to return home. The buildings will need to be inspected to ensure they are safe to occupy and that could take months. Alvarez hopes his insurance will cover any damages. Soti hope so. I hope so. Ihope insurance cover it all. Up the hill, along on convent court, several homes sit above the mudslide. David goepp says the hill is mostly bedrock but that he and his neighbors are still keeping an eye on the mudslide. Sot i think we are ok. Our house is in a good spot. Its on bedrock and its flat. I think the people teetering on the hill are probably more concerned. Toss weather thursday is another strong storm. Weather alert issued. Still ahead in a brand new edition of people behavign badly. Its something you might not think about when it rains the dos and donts of using an umbrella. And next its killing more and more kids. Here in the bay area tonight meet the people on a mission to put a stop to the heroin epidemic. When you find something worth waiting for, well help you invest to protect it for the future. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase, so you can. Drug use in the suburbs is not new. But the centers for Disease Control confirm. The problem with herion is getting worse. Its in our schools and in our neighborhoods. And the cdc reports it is killing kids in greater numbers. Tonight kron 4s Vicki Liviakis introduces us to those in the bay area who are helping to stem the epidemic. Youd never know that tom aswad was a junkie. Aswad is a successful walnut creek businessman who hid his 250 dollar a day heroin habit from his wife. Now clean for many years, he runs the rehab group called support for recovery. His clients include east bay teenagers. Sot and parents dont even associate that their children might be using opiate drugs or transitioning to heroin. But he says, he sees too many teens who are hooked on heroin. And this is where some of those kids end up at john muir Regional Medical center. Dr. Fred van stieff is an addiction specialist otherwise known as dr. Detox. Dr. Van stieff has written a book called the brain in balance. He says heroin changes the brain and thats what makes opioids youd never know that tom aswad was a junkie. Aswad is a successful walnut creek businessman who hid his 250 dollar a day heroin habit from his wife. Now clean for many years, he runs the rehab group called support for recovery. His clients include east bay teenagers. Sot and parents dont even associate that their children might be using opiate drugs or transitioning to heroin. But he says, he sees too many teens who are hooked on heroin. And this is where some of those kids end up at john muir Regional Medical center. Dr. Fred van stieff is an addiction specialist otherwise known as dr. Detox. Dr. Van stieff has written a book called the brain in balance. He says heroin changes the brain and thats what makes opioids so seductive and quitting so hard. Part of his arsenal narcan is a life saver when administered in time to stop an overdose from becoming deadly. Dr. Van stieff is on a mission to make sure kids dont start in the first place. The National Instutute on drug abuse reports. Opioid and heroin use is skyrocking. In 2015, more than 52 thousand died from overdose a record high. He calls the epidemic a silent injustice and an american tragedy. Vicki liviakis kron 4 news. Weve posted several links on our website. Of organizations and programs that are focused on the opiod and heroin epidemic and how to help stem the tide. Got to kron 4 dot com and search for the word opiods coming up the right place at the right time. Meet the two men who jumped into action after car crashed into a creek. And next we are tracking rising creek and river levels. With more rain on the way the areas most at risk tonight. Get ready for more wild weather to slam the bay area. This next storm is expected to pack quite a punch. We have new video showing San Francisquito creek in menlo park. Yesterday it reached the highest level it had in years. Threatening some condos. Rising creeks and rivers causing major flooding concerns tonight as the bay area braces for more rain. Chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp is tracking what you need to know. Thursday is another strong storm. Weather alert issued. Make sure you have the kron4 app to track the storm. Well keep you updated about Severe Weather or traffic problems in your area with breaking news push alerts. 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 others. 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 now a news check on some of the other big stories we are following. 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 at that warehouse. Grant lodes is has been tracking this story for months. And tonight. He has newly released records from the city of oakland. The records released today show that the Oakland Police and firefighters had visited the scene adozensa 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 il