Stand still. No one getting through this area southbound. That is causing a lot of people to find other ways to get to work and school this morning. The city of san jose is under a local weather emergency. 14,000 people have been told to evacuate living there along or near the coyote creek. Another 36,000 people advised to flee their homes as a precaution. Standing water closed the closure of 101 near 880. Or near 280 680 split. All of this because of recent rains and the overflow from the Anderson Reservoir that have caused coyote creek to swell up and crest at historic levels. This is the area were talking about. The orange section on the left hand side of the screen is the area under evacuation advisory. It includes Coyote Creek North of 280 all the way south of 237. And the map on the right is specifically the area under mandatory evacuation just south of highway 101 to north of interstate 280. I had dreams about my house flooding overnight. This is flooding that we we havent seen. We all grew up here. Its been decades since this has happened. I have never seen it. I have been doing this job for a very long time. I have never seen it that way in san jose. One of the thing that people are concerned about is the water is contaminated. Large pieces of debris in the water. Highway 37, we didnt even mention that. It has been closed for a long time. The rain has stopped and it is bright and sunny. But that doesnt mean that the problems are over. It has forced evacuations overnight. We will bring in allie rasmus now in san jose. You have been there all morning. Give us an update on the flooded street behind you. It was flooded earlier on. Reporter right. Well the water level has receded quite a bit since we got here two hours ago. Were standing on the corner of south 21st street and east williams. Part of the intersection are still under water. You can see for yourself over here. But earlier this morning, we couldnt see much of this yellow line that is right in the middle of the street. If we pan the camera off to the right to get a better view of east williams street. Where the man is standing, you couldnt stand there without getting your feet soaking wet a couple hours ago. The water level is going down. However, this neighborhood and several others near coyote creek are under mandatory evacuation orders. A total of 14,000 residents were impacted by the evacuation orders that were updated at 10 00 last night. As of 8 30 this morning, those evacuation orders are still in effect. We had a chance to drive through the neighborhood this morning. This is the brookwood terraca irthat suffered a lot of flood damage. The evacuation orders stand because even though it is sunny and there are no clouds in the sky, Anderson Reservoir is still pouring water into coyote creek. Thats what flooded yesterday. And those waters continue to flow. Although the flood water levels have receded. This neighborhood is part of the 100year floodplain. I spoke with one neighbor who lives near brookwood avenue. He said his neighbors described water seeping through the floorboards and the carpet in their homes on that street. A short time later, the Fire Department went down the street in a boat checking house to house to make sure that everybody had gotten out okay. I spoke to one resident who had to evacuate at a moments notice. At 6 00, everybody started panicking and he didnt get much notice when it was time to leave. It was crazy because my truck actually stalled down the street. Like i got out. The water was maybe up to my waist. And it just it was crazy. It was kind of like a horror movie. You dont know what to do. And everything is gone. My car is gone. Everything is destroyed. Reporter now, the Elementary School in this neighborhood is close to coyote creek. It is one of five schools in the san jose neighborhoods affected by flooding that are closed today. San jose high school, crystal rey high school, mckinley elementary and rocket ship Charter School are all closed. Orliner elementary, the teachers said that the flood reached a couple of the classrooms. There is flood damage at the school. Back out here live, youre looking at the bridge in the distance beyond the orange cones. That is where coyote creek runs. Thats why this neighborhood was so directly impacted by the flooding that happened around here in coyote creek yesterday. I want to pointed out this home right next to this gray house right here on the corner of south 21st and william. That is the home of the young man you heard from a short time ago who said he had to get out in a moments notice and his truck stalled. He and his family are okay. They were able to take their pets and a few personal belongings but they went back to take a look and the home has flood damage. On the bright side, he has Flood Insurance. Again, this is part of the 100 floodplain area. The hope is that a lot of the homeowners here have Flood Insurance to handle some of the problems. Back to you guys. Allie rasmus reporting live in san jose. Thank you, allie. Part of 101 in san jose which has been shut down due to flooding is open. Alex savidge has been there all morning long. You went to no traffic to some traffic getting by. Reporter yes. Certainly sal the situation improving here on highway 101 in san jose. Unfortunately it didnt start to get better until we were done with the heart of the morning commute and really traffic in this area was just a nightmare for people with a full freeway closure. You can see now that we have the two right hand lanes open in the northbound direction of highway 101. The rest of the lanes still are closed down though. And of course the situation a lot better than that full freeway closure that we had earlier this morning. Take a look at what this scene looks like this morning. All of the lanes of the freeway under water. And 101 was shut down in both directions overnight and into the Early Morning hours because of this flooding. It was closed between 880, the junction with 880 and the 280 680 junction. Again, within the last hour and a half or so, they started to reopen some of the lanes as the water began to recede. I spoke with the chp sergeant just minutes ago and he told me they will be reopening more lanes as soon as possible. As soon as i can get a car through anywhere that i can get a car through, i want to push traffic out. I wanted to see if it was six inches deep or a foot deep. Could a car make it. When i realized that the water recedes enough to get cars through here, we will get cars through here. Reporter and, again, caltrans has been working through the Morning Hours trying to pump the water out of here. This is a known trouble spot. It is obviously a low point in the freeway here. They have had flooding here before. But the sergeant that i works in the san jose area says they have never seen the situation like this, with this much standing water on the freeway. The next thing that is going to happen is right here, were standing in the southbound lanes of highway 101. The next thing that the sergeant told me is they will start getting cars through here on the shoulder, the left hand shoulder of southbound 101 so they can get some relief here because the traffic situation here in the south bay is just really been a nightmare. Theyve had awful traffic, major backups here because of the full closure. The next step in the process, they will start getting a few cars through in the southbound direction. Again, two northbound lanes of highway 101 already back open after this mornings flooding. We will send it back to you guys. If the shoulder is dry, use it. Im on board with that. Thank you, alex. Lets go to steve paulson. How much participation out there right now. Thank goodness. Yes. Theres a lot of snow up in the mountains. That has tailed off any precip. We may have a little bit today. Yosemite captured this picture at the residence. 137 inches of snow on the ground this morning. And there are theres a you go up higher and you find a lot more than that for sure. There are multiple sites here. This one and another one are about the best. All observations are showing that the creek has peaked and heading down. Flood stage 14. 2 at that site. Coyote creek at edenvale has peaked out at 14. 4. Flood stage is 10. Major flood stage is 14. At least were seeing a downward trend here. Quiet but there are a few showers kind of flirting, if you will, right along the san mateo, santa cruz coast. Dont think they will do much but theyre there. Another batch coming right down out of the north that could clip Mendocino County and lake county. We could get a few showers in northern Sonoma County and napa county later today. Mostly cloudy skies this afternoon. And again, there wont be a lot of rain. There could be a few. We are getting a break for a few days. Until the weekend, which is still kind of iffy where it will set up. It may go south or along the coast. Thank you, steve. All week long, ktvu has been working on a series of stories about bay area infrastructure. One of the most visible examples of that is mass transit, especially rail. Reporter the 5. 5 billion smart train comes to marin and sonoma counties late this spring. It will Start Operation from the bay point transfer station in late 2017 to antioch. This 5. 25 billion was chosen because it cost half of extending bart service. Voters approved a new 3. 5 billion bond bart measure. You know, its always an incredibly difficult decision to ask voters for new money. Reporter bart originally designed to carry 50,000 daily passengers carries 400,000 passengers. This will increase it to 650,000 passengers. We will replace track and Electrical Systems that were first installed in the 1960s. Reporter the doctor a transit finance expert at the san jose based Transportation Institute says people will pay for transit they think provides a necessary and positive benefit. Overwhelmingly they say yes. You tend to get 75 or more people saying yes, thats a priority. I want to see that happen. Reporter even if they dont ride it themselves, they see it as a travel option and a way to decongest roadways just as bart does. Were going to continue to need Additional Resources as we continue to grow. Reporter the controversial high speed rail project does not enjoy nearly the support that local transit does that raises two questions, can it survive and just as importantly will it have a negative impact on local transit when if asks for more money. With high speed rail, it is harder for many californians to envision who is actually going to use it, is it really going to benefit me even if i dont use it. Reporter like all mega projects such as the new bay bridge and bostons big dig, high speed rail is such a large project that the real cost is hard to pinpoint. What voter as proved in 2006 was a 45 billion project. That was before the Great Recession and almost a decade of inflation. Now 64 billion is more like it and the federal government is now waiverring. With these very large projects like high speed rail, it is very hard to stop once you get started. Nobody sees that as a feasible option. Reporter high speed rail may be beyond the point of no return. Toms next piece will mow cuss on potholes and will air tonight at 5 30. We have heard from viewers about more potholes on the roads with the recent storms. We made that the question of the day. Which do you think is the worst area for potholes . San Francisco City streets im assuming. And 101 north near candlestick. Nor cal nick says city streets, oakland. 880 in oakland. Im sensing a theme here. Kevin says 880 probably. There is a giant one on 680 by the 24 interchange. We will keep checking your responses throughout the day and share them with you at 9 30. The hashtag is ktvuthenine. We are learning more about the revision of President Trumps travel ban. What is being done differently this time around. President trump is about to shallu another executive order to revise his controversial temporary refugee and travel ban. The white house says the same seven mostly muslim countries will be targeted in the ban. They are coming up with new language to get it through the courts. They have taken the 9th circuits opinion, an opinion in brooklyn and in virginia and they found all of the things that the judges said are problematic with the executive order and they will address them. Reportedly the new order will include ex solutions for people who have travel visas, green card holders and dual u. S. Citizens. Were happy to have a professor of law from uc hastings on the line. Thank you for coming back. In response to the revised travel ban, do you expect the administration to roll it out in some sense . A lot of the outrage came from the fact that it was signed and went into effect. President trump didnt want to give the bad guys advanced notice. Do you expect rolling out in stages instead of a straight here it is. It might be a rolling out . Stages. For the courts and there will be judicial review of whatever happens. It will make little difference. The issue isnt the timing but the substance. When it comes to the law, are they going to look at the face of it or try and devise intent. Can the judges say i know what you mean here even though its not in the face of the law. Are they going to look at it at face value. What the court said in the previous installment is they look beyond the four corners of the document at what might have inspired the document. At least in the 9th Circuit Decision it was obvious there was racial animals that could be assumed based on everything surrounding the ban. I dont see the litigation regarding what comes out next will be any different. This would not be difficult to beat in court if it went to the revised version. I think it depends a lot on the phrasing and the work of the lawyers. I find it difficult to envision a situation like this that actually prevents People Holding legal work visas and green carding from coming into the country that will pass constitutional muster. It is not impossible. Lots of different circuits. Its no coincidence that the previous installment happened in the 9th circuit which is the court that is more on the progressive side. It really is it really is a good question. Professor, if we could move to two memos released by the homeland of security to release more Border Patrol officers and those removed that have been convicted of crimes. The second one, isnt that an enforcement of an existing law or something new. Yes and no. It is something new in the sense that it vastly expands the scope of the people were looking at. And this is all one of the issues is the question of whether we need to fear immigrants because they commit crime. What is going on is there is this strong nexus that this memo is trying to create between immigrants and crime by adding more categories of crime, including petty crime, including traffic offenses and things like that into the things that merit deportation. What we know and this is a consensus among everybody who studies immigration, immigrants on average commit less crime than the native born and they are less of a threat to us and to our safety. Instilling fear that more people would be going into hiding. We are already seeing the effects of this. People are entering this kind of protective mode and concern about raids and the and the i mean, the administration is trying to present this as basically the and the to allow ice to do their job and allow them to capture people that they can capture technically any way. There is a difference between technical law and how it is applied. Do you find theres been a big conflict between the executive Branch Powers and the judicial Branch Powers with this president more than we have seen in past administrations. I think if anything what this conflict has taught us in the last few weeks and how important it is to have an independent judiciaries that can examine these things without fear of retaliation. Sanctuary city and state, how does it figure into the plans. Immigration is within the purview of the federal government. The federal government cant comendeer state resources to do their job. If they dont want to cooperate, theroux blamed to give the city or town money to do the task. This is why were seeing big variation between different states and different cities and how enthusiastically or antagonistically they have approached the orders. The federal government cant legally go after the city thats refuse to cooperate. What the federal government cant do is force the cities to cooperate like they did in arizona. They could retaliate against the cities in terms of budgetary things. That is unconstitutional and sneaky side. There have been threats about withholding funding. Yes. And we already have municipalities against the administration. Thank you, professor. Coming up, what oakland administrator getting a pay raise. We will tell you why her salary is connected to that of the Incoming Police chief. Ktvu has been sitting down with the mayors of the three biggest cities. We hear from sam liccardo coming up. Thank you so much, professor. Thank you. I bet the common law class is really fun these days. With all of the flooding we have seen, we definitely have seen san jose marry sequentially on the front lines of flooding and evacuations in the south bay. I sat down with the mayor to talk about his top three priorities for the year ahead. Every couple months we will have a reason to be here talking. Sam liccardo took the long way to get to ktvus studios in oakland. You left san jose and went to San Francisco and then to oakland. What was the drive like. Less than pleasant. Transportation is one of his Top Priorities for 2017. The bart extension into san jose in the short term and ultimately what he calls the Grand Central station in the south bay. We have never had a real transit network. The opportunity to have seven different transit lines all with that kind of connectivity. As were able to connect the transit, it becomes more meaningful for folks. What they see is a patch work rather than a network. How far out is that vision of Grand Central station on the west coast. The good news not as long off as you might think. In november we