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Rain. last night was as hard as i ve ever seen it. go to santa barbara and montecito is under evacuation orders five years ago when they had the big mudslide. they have very steep terrain there. you get a lot of mudslides. a lot of rock slides in the canyons. the 101 today. central coast more flooding there. a woman tried to cross one of these washed out roads and rescued but lost her 5-year-old child swept away in the water. you go further north in the sacramento, san francisco area, 300,000 people up there without power. trying to get it back on but the big oak trees, the saturation in the soil, you have 60 mile-per-hour winds are toppling power lines and knocking out power. you go farther north to santa cruz county. some of the cleanup has begun there. crazy because we expect more storms later this week. ....
Trying to fill his generator with gases setting it on fire. the goal, access and to start moving in much-needed supplies to these isolated areas. the island s interior, this is part of the problem. the mudslides that block the road and access to that power substation. hector was gathering drinking water off the mountain side. he came to the mountain side to get water because there s no water at his house. power, you know, we know we re going to face that and we can deal with that. biggest concern is water. can t live without water. reporter: carlos vargas lives beyond a big mudslide. the national guard had to evacuate 35,000 people before the mudslide demolished the building. we carry the elderly in their chairs, their beds and we just ....
Unitedhealthcare. welcome back to early start. we re going to return to flight 370 coverage in just a moment. first, the search for survivors continues this morning after that deadly washington state mudslide. it is growing more grim by the hour. fire officials now believe up to 24 people are dead. scores are still missing. investigators admitting chances of finding anyone else alive are pretty slim. i want you to listen to this 911 call, it comes from the moment right after the landslide began. followed by the fire chief s sobering assessment of the devastation. it s a big mudslide. all i see is dirt now. we watched hundreds of trees come down. i m on sea post road. highway 530. are there any injuries? ....
it was like the heavens opened up. it just constant. it didn t stop. it didn t stop. big mudslide came down and got us all stuck. it was over there and the water started coming in. well, the rains have also washed trash, pesticides and bacteria into waterways prompting health warnings and closing miles of local beaches down that part of the state. now, the storm system which has brought so much misery to southern california is now moving inland. there the rain is turning to snow. it s piling up by the foot in sierra nevada mountains and this same storm system could create quite a mesfor the rest of the country over the christmas holiday weekend. todd santos is here with the forecast. i was looking behind you and i thought, is that feet? you could change it to feet. especially as far as the rainfall totals out of california, especially in the mountain, that s where you ve seen a lot of these numbers, double-digit numbers and i placed a couple of them on ....
Remarkable considering those pictures. and with more on the storm, here s nbc s chris klackum. reporter: another round of torrential rainfall rustles residents in lagoona beach out of their beds early wednesday morning. it s like the heaven s opened up. just constant. didn t stop. didn t stop. a big mudslide came down. i was over there and the water started coming in. reporter: for a while, jeremy hess was trapped. there was a time where i didn t think we were going to get out. reporter: the business district spent hours under three feet of water. property damages will be in the tens of millions. all the businesses on ocean avenue. i have three friends with business there s and it is three or four feet tall. reporter: flooding is also a problem in san diego where rescuers are using rafts to rescue guests from a hotel. the mudslides are washing out roads. ....