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W saturated with atmospheric river storms dumping huge amounts of rain since late december. some 20 million people are under flood watches. many also face the threat of mudslides. natasha chen is in fairfax california, north of san francisco. what is the situation there? >> reporter: pam, you caught us in a dry moment here. this is a common sight we're seeing around time. plumbers showed up, working on trying to clear a drain over there. this is all downhill flow from the nearby creek. we're seeing a lot of this around town. it's flooded the streets. urban flooding here where they've put up co...

People living nearby could hear the woman screaming but couldn't see her so they yelled back into the darkness offering reassuran reassurances. >> hang on, people are coming, the fire department are coming. there's a boat. we're lick looki looking for yo. trying to reassure her she wouldn't be left there for a long time. >> the dog wasn't worth their lives and i think the dog is safe where it's at. somebody is there at the kennels. >> sheriff's deputies were finally able to find the couple and rescue them. both were cold but unhurt. floods and landslides have crows closed a number of areas, kn...

We'd like to see it. >> can you see it there? >> yeah, go for it. >> so yeah, you can see inside the salad spinner there's a yogurt container that's propping up cones. and in between the teeth of cones we just set these tiny little test tubes that contain the blood samples. so we spin it for about ten minutes just using the pump-on top. and afterwards it will separate between the plasma and blood cells. >> the pump-on top, it works that way. you didn't really have to overhaul it much or reconfigure it to work? >> no, all the salad spinners own mechanism. we don't have the engineering backgroun...