Around 8 in the morning on tuesday, the San Rafael Fire Department responded here to Mountain View avenue on reports of a tree that was about to fall. Upon arrival they discovered that a mudslide had completely destroyed this home. The slide apparently happened slowly over several hours and the family that lives in the house was able to get out safely. Neighbors passing by through out the day were stunned. Sot its unbelievable. It humbles yah. Sotits devastatingsot houses can be rebuilt. There just glass and wood and stuff. Sotim just glad everyone is ok. In addition to destroying this home, the mudslide also continues to threaten the homes on either side. Both have been red tagged by the city and are considered uninhabitable. One home has already suffered some damage and the other has several feet of mud in the back yard. Tonight three out of four lanes of highway 17 are closed. After a massive land slide came screaming down the mountiain. Flipping one mans pickup truck. Grant lodes is tracking the situation in the santa cruz mountains. Gra nt. One southbound lane opened around 6 00 tonight. After that enourmous landslide could have killed someone this morning. The three other lanes of 17 are still closed and its not clear when they will be open to traffic. The man whos lucky to be here tonight. Arne huddin, of capitola. He says all that dirt and rock plowed into his pickup truck. Like a runaway train. Lifting his truck like a toy and tossing it over the center divider. And into the southbound lanes. Huddin was trapped for about ten agonizing minutes, as rocks and debris fell around him. By the time people stopped to help he had crawled out on his own, bloodying his hands in the escape. The slide is the same one that crushed a news van last month. Its now twice as big and still moving. The northbound lanes will be closed for a least 24 hours. Until caltrans can assess the potential for the earth to keep moving. During the closure. Traffic in each direction will share the southbound lanes. And by the way. There were other, smaller slides and a lot of flooding elsewhere on highway 17. Kron fours jeff bush is live tonight in the santa cruz mountainsjeff, hows it going out there. Grant, the southbound direction is openbut only one lane is availablewhich means slow going for drivers on their way to santa cruz. The northbound direction is still closed at vine hill road and is expected to remain that way throughout the night. Cal trans crews are hard at work with their heavy duty excavatorsclearing the mud slide off the roadway one scoop at a time. Big trucks are lined up to take the mud and rocks away while chp keeps a close eye on the situation. Officers say mud slides like this can be expected whenever there is a large rain event like the one last night. Crista drakecalifornia Highway Patrol cal trans says they are hoping to get at least one north bound lane open by the morning commutedrivers can expect more lane closures throughout the week while they get the hill side shored up. Back to you in the studio. In the north bay. Highway 37 is yet again closed because of flooding. The heavy rain last night and this morning has left much of Sonoma County highway submerged. This is video from quad copter 4. Both directions of highway 37 are closed between atherton avenue and highway 101. The chp says the water overflow is coming from the nearby novato creek. At last word there was no estimate on when it might reopen. Unfortunately the problems we are seeing could persist. Since the rain is not over yet. Lets check in with kron4s chief meteorologist who is tracking when the rain will retrun more rain for rest of the week. Heavy on thursday roads and highways were not the only things closed today because of the rain schools all over marin county were closed too. Kron fours Spencer Blake is live at one of those schools in larkspur tonight. What did you find as you went from school to school . Along with flooded areas from the morning rain, i also ran into several students who were happy to have an unexpected day off. The empty parking lot at Tamalpais High School almost made it look like a saturday. Though tam high was one of 27 schools in marin county that canceled classes, Keeley Lanigan had already started walking to it. There was all these puddles and i got super wet. But yeah, it was raining really hard and there was flooding. A snapped sapling in front of campus was evidence of the wind, and the wood chips on the sidewalk show how high the water rose. Most of it receded by the afternoon, but there were still some lanes that were too dangerous to drive in. Over in larkspur, this group of kids went to school anyway. To play basketball. It was on snapchat. I just saw a few people like video taping it from over here. It was getting like really high from the tippy top. Hes talking about the corte madera creek, just yards from kent middle school. It had risen at least up to this walking trail early tuesday when students heard the news. I was happy and justi dont know. Happy. Did you have a test or anything that you got out of today . Yeah, i had a quiz for spanish that i got out of. And at Redwood High School in larkspur its even more obvious why they had to cancel classes; check out the water all the way up to the bleachers on the softball field. Perhaps a foot of water filled the fan zone. Look how drastically it drenched the diamond. Honestly, im not surprised. This school always floods. Public works even blocked off the parking lotwhere the nearby marsh had spilled over. Most people were already at school when they said no school today, so it was kind of funny. It may not be as funny wednesdaywhen classes are expected to be back in session. Thursday could be another floodfilled day, so the marin county superintendent of schools and the office of Emergency Services will coordinate on wednesday afternoon. To see if the forecast calls for more canceled classes. Live in larkspur, Spencer Blake, kron four news. All eyes on the russian river. It is notorious for flooding when big storms hit. And tonight may be no different. Kron 4s alecia reid is live in guerneville where the river is on the rise tonight. Alecia . Ahead at eight. Flooding becomes so intense. It traps a driver on the highway. The storm causing damage and stirring emotions. As a homeowner talks about a downed tree on the property hes lived on for decades. Rising creek waters triggering an Evacuation Order for apartments on the peninsula. East palo alto was under Flood Warning for most of the day and a large condo complex was put under a voluntary evacuation because of how close it sits to the San Francisquito creek that has swelled up higher than it has in years. Kron 4s gabe slate is on the scene where the city jumped into action to prevent major flooding on nearby highway 101 im on west Bayshore Road near hwy 101 and the University Avenue exitcheck out this giant pile of debris. This is trees, branches, bushes. Trash and this pile was about twice this size a couple hours ago. A big dump truck came and loaded half of it and drove off. All this stuff was stuck over here in the creek creating a damn they werent sure they would be able to clear it so they asked the residents of the Woodland Creek condominium complex that sits right behind us here to evacuate. The creek looks much better now the level has receded. But take a look at how it almost did flood and the tool they used to prevent flooding. Branch after branch floated down the san fran qeet toe creek in East Palo Alto until it they could not go any further. Mother nature was making a damn here at west Bayshore Road and the hwy 101 bridge. Taking advantage of the cities trash rack. Assistant city manager Sean Charpentier explains what that is. Sot sean look at how close this creek and the overflowing situation is to highway 101 southbound near the University Exit sot sean they are hustleling to fix this so the creek wont spill over onto 101 and shut it down creating an epic commute nightmare. Some residence stayed thruogh the volutary evacuation others were not taking the chance sot haily behind the complex down the road at the newell road bridge the locals were shocked to see how high the creek got so fast. I ran into len materman who was there to measure the creek, he is with the san fran cis qeet toe joint Powers Authority they issue the local flood watches and warnings. Sot len since 1931 the creek here the creek here never did over flow. Highway 101 was saved the complex did not have any water from the creek reach it their plan worked this is one where man beat nature. Or man and a giant excavator machine. They are going to continue to monitor the creek here but they dont expect anymore flooding danger until it rains harder on thursday. In East Palo Alto gabe slate kron 4 news. Toss weather we brought it to you live here on kron4. A water rescue in wine country. Trapping not one, but three cars. Floodwaters making for some dangerous conditions where highway 121 meets route 12 sonoma. Grant lodes is here now. And grant these problems occured all day. The north bay took beating this morning. Rain falling so quickly. Really no place for it go. Two cars were stranded overnight. At highway 121 and route 12. If you were with us about 11 hours ago. You saw that live rescue on the kron4 morning news at 9. But the problems didnt stop there. A u ps truck also got stuck. Firefighters tried to tether it out but the c hp ended up pushing the truck out instead. Chp says when you look at standing water in the road it might not look that deep. Until youre in it. By that time it may be too late. Youre car could stall or flood. So its best to follow signs and not try to drive through water on roadways. The east bay got his hard as well. Leaving a path of destruction. Including a large tree that came crashing down blocking access to a street in a quiet neighborhood. The tree was on the property of a man whos lived there for more than 40years. And as kron4s Haaziq Madyun tells us. It was an emotional moment for him. Its a shame that i lose that old guyit is with Great Sadness that earl heaps gazes upon this massive oak tree on his property here at the corner of alhambra way and tahoe street in martinez. The oak came down during the storm Tuesday Morning and completely blocked tahoe street. Very fortuitus because if the tree fell in the other direction. It would have taken my house out, that trunk alone is probably 50tons, its probably 2 or 300 years old, it was this big when i moved in here back in the 70smr. Heaps describes the nerve shattering sound of the tree when the tree uprootedi thought a plane had crashed in the back. Then i thought that this big oak tree fell, well anyway, it scared the hell out of meit shocked his neighbors too. This is the view they have of the tree from the other side of tahoe street well i am just glad that nobody was hurt, hopefully nobodys car was under it at the time, we lost power for a few hours but that wasnt too bad but this is just quite sad, there is a lot of history therenobody knows that more then mr. Heapsyeah. Too bad there was no one was injured and no vehicles damaged when the tree came down. In martinez Haaziq Madyun kron4news new ahead at 8. A normally quiet dog. Then all of sudden he started barking. Alerting people to a serious medical emergency. Plus. A federal court panel hears arguments on the president s travel ban. When a decision is expected to be made. Heres what were tracking tonight at ten. Heroin hits home. The number of teens using the drug is on the rise. Tonight at ten. Meet a bay area mother struggling to help her son kick the habit. Her warning to other parents. Tonight on kron 4 news at ten. Bart service has been stalled in richmond. Because a person was hit and killed by a train. It happened between the richmond and el cerrito del norte stations, just before six this evening. Trains are not travelling between the two stations at this hour. We are told the county coronor is on the scene. A bus bridge has been setup to run between the North Berkeley and richmond stations. It is a case that could eventually go to the u. S. Supreme court. But today it played out in a federal court here in san francisco. Three Appeals Court judges heard arguments over president trumps travel ban. The justices grilled a Justice Department lawyers on whether the ban was intended to discriminate againt muslims. The court says it will decide as soon as possible if a lower court stay of the executive order will remain in effect. Trouble on the road in one peninsula city. Ahead at eight. Why it could take months to fix the damage along highway 84. Mudslides, downed trees and flooding. Napa county slammed by the storm. We show you some of the hardest hit areas. Flooded roads, trapped drivers and rising rivers. The latest storm packing a punch and dropping inches of new rain in the bay area. And its not over yet. Kron4s chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp is tracking when the next round is expected to get here. More rain for rest of the week. Heavy on thursday it has been a wet and wild day for anyone trying to get around on the peninsula today. Kron4s Maureen Kelly gives us an upclose look at some major traffic distruptions on highway 84 in woodside. Rain loosened rocks. And some big boulders came down onto highway 84 east of skyline blvd this morning. Closing off the westbound lane to traffic. And the trouble is. This was the good side of this section. The east bound side has been closed for weeks. Check out the cracks in the ashplat. The ground beneath it is washing out. This situation made worse when this stand of six redwoods fell last week. See this peg. It was a monitor put into this same section of the road back in 2006 when there was a similar problem. Its not supposed to be sticking out. It means the road has slipped six inches. Standupthe crews out here think they should have this slide cleaned up and westbound 84 back open sometime by wedneday afternoon they are hopingbut the job to reopen eastbound 84 could take six months. But this isnt the only spot where theres trouble on this road. Which below the slide is only open to locals starting from portola road. For good reason. Since there are little slides. All over causing hazards for motorists. This one apparently took a young tree down with it, the force of teh slide, snapping it some of the newer residents are surprised to be dealing with rural problems so close to the civilization of silicon valley. A few weeks ago we had a power outage that lasted 4 days and then a tree fell and broke our water main so we didnt have water for four days. The road problems are more managable, we are glad to have power and water. I hope it stays that way. But at least 65 people who live around hwy 84 west of skyline blvd did have their power knocked out. For a chunk of the day. When a power pole came down. Another casuality of the storm. Maureen kelly kron4 news. In the north bay. Several roads are closed in napa county after downed trees and mud. Made a mess. This mudslide covered several hundred feet along redwood road. County workers say, this slide happened at around 4this morning. No one was injured. But roughly a thousand people have lost power because of it. Crews say. Such a massive mudslude could take a few days to clean up. Picking that another tree fell on power lines further north in st. Helena. This giant pine tree has caused a major power outage in that area as well. Rain totals in napa county were just about 3inches. All that wet weather caused a closure of several roads because of flooding. Some of them including big ranch road at oak knoll avenue which reopened by early afternoon. We got an email from a viewer with a Rainy Weather concern. Saying i am concerned about how many folks drive in the pouring rain with windshield wipers on. And no lights which i consider dangerous. I think this needs to be stopped. Coincidentally our very own Stanley Roberts noticed the same thing and filed this report im driving on highway 101 in san francisco, in front of me a caltrans truck nats ambiancethe operator of this state owned truck is ignoring state law despite the fact caltrans post the law on highway Message Boards which law is that . Well when it rains and you have your windshield wipers activated you must turn on your lights nats ambiancenow im going to clear up a few myths related to headlights and wipers, because there are a lot of people who think any light on the car turned on meets state law first off you need your headlights on, not your parking lights, not your running lights, not your blinkers in other words your tail and head lights are required to be on. In the day as well as nighttime nats ambiance the lights are not so you can see better, because if it did. These drivers would have notice the keep clear sign painted on the street the lights dont make you stop for red lights, if that were the case this driver wouldnt have ran the left turn arrow and went straight whenever it rains, i get emails from viewers asking me to do segments on drivers who refuse to follow state law. Its much a common sense its to make you more visible nats ambiance some cars actually blend in the inclement weather and are hard to see. So when your lights are on you make it safe for everyone you can be pulled over and ticketed for not turning on your headlights when you activate your windshield wipers. Here is something that might catch your attention, not having your lights on is a moving violation which carrys one point the fine is thirty five dollars but after all the penalties are attached it jumps to 238 dollars. Nats ambiance all it takes is a stretch of the arm to turn on the light switch or a stoke of the pen to press hard for the ticket book. You choose riding around the bay in the rain looking at all these cars ignoring the law Stanley Roberts kron 4 news still ahead at 8. A spike i