in the water. >> gasoline, oil. trance mission fluid. battery acid. >> this is a toxic soup in the waters. situation might get worse before it gets better. >> we have a map of the area that's flooded just south of downtown san jose. not far from happy hallow park. >> all because of what's happening upstream. look at video of anderson reservoir. at capacity. been gushing over the spillway and into coyote creek since saturday. here's the latest from san jose. the city declared a local emergency because of the flooding and what may still be yet to come. >> at least 220 people have been forced from their homes. they're not sure when they can go back. first responders spray painted xs on homes and apartments that were successfully evacuated. that's a sign everyone there was okay. >> amazingly so far no injuries reported.

abc 7 reporter been on the story all day long with you. i've watched you for several hours. amazing watching the cars and the water rising and people being rescued and dave joins us live. >> reporter: well, yes, it has been a long day and a long ordeal for the residents here in the neighborhood. water has crested officially. continuing to rise just a little bit. and they're not expected to recede until sometime overnight, possibly not until sometime early tomorrow morning. the residents will not be able to return any time soon due to contamination. residents on the neighborhood say over and over, how fast and how high the area would flood. coyote creek runs right through rock springs. said it was quote a unique breach.

so much runoff from the storm. reached storage capacity. the mayor did not go into detail saying the top priority was getting residents out safely. captain told us meetings were held to go over the potential for floods. >> there have been hydrologists who work for the city and water district kbho are calculate fg we get this much flow, going to have water overflowing banks at this point in the river. all of that has been mapped out. >> however that was little consolation for those who had to leaf everything they owned behind. into rescue boats and undergo decontamination. concerns the water mixed with sewage and toxic substances people might store in garages or homes. fast rising creek waters also submerged cars and pickups owned by residents rendering them useless. one had an open rear window. evacuated residents told us they lost so many personal

belongings. >> i know we lost a lot of photos. had a lot of clothes down there from the winter. ive know i had a lot of shoes. had all my baby's toys. all of his stuff down there. >> as you indicated, more than 200, 220 residents had been evacuated. the evacuation process has been suspended. they're moving on to other hot spots. turned off all power and gas service to this area for safety. live in east san jose. david louis. abc 7 news. >> david, thank you so much. right now take a live look from sky 7 at the impact of the flooding. this is in san jose. coyote creek is still maintaining that level even though it has crested, but you can see it's devastating to the area. also affecting the freeway as well. >> you've got the water spilling over to some areas. it's very difficult in the entire region.

those pictures earlier in the day were captivating with the water gushing in. no place for the water to go from here. you can see the traffic is stopped on that one road there, but it's just a very difficult time for everybody in the area is affected near coyote creek. some neighbors hit hard by the flooding. south 17 street west of coyote creek. see the flood water reaching the second story of the homes. nobody inside at the times. neighbor who lives right inside the street says so far his house has been spared. >> looked over at the neighborhoods driveway. it was up high. basically it's underwater now. we're planning on hopefully putting some sandbags outside our house and hopefully it won't flood too. >> santa clara tells abc 7 it has not seen flooding like this

for 20 years. >> see the overflowing creek flooding the freeway. this is northbound 101 between cochran road and bailey avenue. that remains shutdown. big rig and truck trying to make its way through. reopening is 11:00 tomorrow night. >> tomorrow. >> yes, you've got a while to go. traffic being diverted in the meantime. surface street. see how backed up it's going to get. they're significant delays in the area. drivers advised to use alternate routes if at all possible. santa clara water district working to create a dam to stop the water from getting on the freeway. >> it's slowly going down. we need the dam here. once it's built we can breach it further and stop any flow from going any further down. northbound 101 cochran closed until tomorrow night. live picture of traffic in the area. see all that red thachlt is the

area we're talking about. the purple area in fact. shutdown. a lot of slow going for you. >> hundreds of people who had to flee testimony rising floodwaters getting help and housing tonight. abc reporter has the story from james lick high school in san jose. >> reporter: the image of this little girl resting on someone's shoulder says it all. just two of dozens of people forced from homes in san jose. >> just pretty shocked right now. >> buses dropped off evacuees. brothers and roommates alberto and aldrin would have been on this bus had they been home this morning. >> it wuas flood all over the place. >> unable to get back to apartment, they came here. >> i was amazed. i didn't know what to do. >> we have food, snacks, water. health services. nurses here to help assess needs if they lost medicine. also mental health professionals to talk about thinking about recovery. >> second shelter on standby if this one reaches capacity.

240 people. the salvation army dropped off socks and undergarments for evacuees. >> like i said, it's a team effort. american red cross and us we have to take care of people here. >> chris patternson summons stopped by as well. >> i need to go down and see what i can do to help. >> offered clothing vouchers from her boutique for those impacted. >> we prayed for the rain. we needed the rain. it's def stravastating now. >> monetary donations can always help those in need. >> the shelter here at james high school cannot accommodate pets. anyone who needs to health eshe pet can bring their bet to san jose animal shelter for safekeeping. in san jose, abc 7 news. to help people affected by the flooding donate to american red cross. address here on your screen. 2731 north first street in san jose. red cross says you can mail in our drop off monetary donations

or you can donate over the phone. berkeley police have arrested a man accused of stabbing a steph member at a private school. >> happened at 1:40 this afternoon. via center special education school. live outside the school on sixth street. >> reporter: chrissen and larry, that staff member is being treated at the hospital after what was a frightening encounter with one of her students. berkeley police received a 911 call at 1:46 p.m. to report a stabbing here at via center a private special education school on sixth street near a. stabbed a staff member. fortunately her injuries are nonlife threatening and is now in police custody. an officer spotted him 30 minutes after berkeley policed issued the lookout. found him on buchanan street after an intense search. >> well described him as armed

and dangerous because the knife was outtanding. we shared information with the community. aski asking to consider shelt neerinn place and call us if they see someone matching the description. >> few yards from the school. matches the description of the suspect's weapon. silver blade with a black handle. as to what led to the sta bing in the first place, trying to figure that out. live in berkeley. san francisco, stemming from alleged public fight at daily city restaurant. with his girlfriend who is also a san francisco firefighter. city police confirms they arrested san romero last night. case on the way to county district attorney's office.

fire department spokesperson tells abc seven news it's aware of the situation. >> this is a very busy day filled with news. road collapse. race to fix highway 50 buckled and broken away. a wall peels away like it's made of paper. homeowner says the city is to blame for the water damage. you'll he you'll hear what they have to say. >> laying out plans for aggressive enforcement of immigration laws as people in the bay area say not on their watch. and as we take a live look at the problems in san jose. talking about the flooding off of northbound 101 there. new flood warnings for the

did not include dreamers in new guidelines. people who came into the country illegally as children. he has been keeping promise or pledge to be tough on other illegal immigrants. first order of business is to hire 5,000 new border patrol officers and 10,000 immigration. promised to step up enforcement of u.s. immigration laws. >> it is about time. new guidelines don't change any existing laws. just put in place methods to enforce the existing laws. >> planned by enlisting more law

enforcement. they will be able to find and detain those who have commit ended even minor offenses. >> they might think you're going to go after them. that doesn't necessarily mean. >> under deported without a hearing. under president trump's guidelines undocumented immigrant living anywhere in the u.s. for less than two years could face the same outcome. >> it's going to cover people here up to two years. who are found in the united states. >> anywhere. >> anywhere in the united states. >> today in oakland, dozens gathered to protest trump's so-called continued assault on immigrants. of albany says there are bigger problems to solve.

just victimizing. part of the community. >> the group also marched to the county sheriffs office to ask it not comply with deportation requests made by the trump administration. in oakland. abc 7 news. napa county couple says city of american canyon is being a bad neighborhood. poor drainage on the lot next door is causing flooding on their property. story sent in from american canyon. abc 7 reporter live with the story. more now. >> reporter: hi, larry the issue is manmade mound in front of me. this is city owned property. the folks here own the property behind it here say this creates a runway for all this water to flow directly at their house. >> i worry about it all the time. i worry about it not only when i'm running around all night

long. >> it's because a nonstop battle for trying to keep all this water away from their property. >> the suck pump can drain 6,000 gallons of water per hour. >> they say the water is coming from the vacant lot next door owned by the city of american canyon. the dirt mounds dumped there by the city 25 years ago now covered in grass call the water to drain directly at them. seen it in past years, but never like this. >> never did our pool house flood, did our backyard flood. never did we run three sump pumps. did never we stay up 24/7. >> now the walls of the pool house are so damp they peel away. their sump pumps are running 24/7 as for their pleas to the city. >> we have gotten zero response. >> we don't think we made any changes to the property we

owned. in the time in between there has been significant rain and there weren't problems necessarily we're aware of. we're not sure what the issues are. >> contacting them via e-mail, phone calls. hope the city comes through with a long-term fix, but meantime starting to rain again. >> we have to man the pumps and keep them running. that's all we can do. >> in american canyon, lori anthony, abc 7 news. scam artist. they work like clock work. whenever there's a disaster, expect scammers to move in and take advantage of the us expecting. here with a consumers alert for us. >> it's my busy season. these kinds of things happen. one such scam has gripped posing at federal aide workers. one victim of a past disaster learned all about this the hard way. >> reporter: many of those evacuated will soon return home to one big mess. picking up the pieces won't be easy.

desperation many will feel could make them vulnerable. knows this firsthand. this is cell phone video of damage after the 2014 nap a quake. shortly after the big jolt rocked him and his girlfriend out of bed. >> my girlfriend was screaming, earthquake, earthquake. i just rolled on top of her and told her to hold still. >> reporter: later learned his insurance would not cover any damage. when someone phoned him to say he had been awarded a federal grant to make repairs he was elated. >> i got excited when i heard that. it will come in handy with a lot of things that need to be replaced. >> but it does a scam. he was instructed to go to water and purchase a prepaid debit card. told him to read the account number on the back of the card and to confirm identification because he would need an id to use it, but once he gave them

the number, they immediately withdrew the $310 he put on the card. >> i felt pretty stupid for allowing that to happen to myself. >> here's what you need to know to avoid falling when hiring a contractor. get three bids. you know that. don't put down more than 10% on $1,000 whichever is less. that is state law. if someone ask you to get it. never pay cash. never pay for work until it's completed for your satisfaction. hold the final payment until you're happy. portion of highway 50 heading into town is closed because of collapsed roadway. see these pictures, it's hard to believe this is going to open up any time soon. posted this facebook video. collapsed another now buckled. just happened this afternoon.

trying to fix this problem, but for now, doing one way traffic control going to take a while. damage near fresh pond. 60 miles east of sacramento. now accuweather forecast. storm related problems continue. good evening as we take a look at live doppler seven. active scene still. tracking downpours. street level radar where we're still seeing yellows and oranges indicating moderate to heavy rain. east of black hawk area and finally road. seeing downpours and seeing heavy rain from pldoubling down towards foothill road. take you to san matteo coastline. tracking light to moderate rain. do want to show you where this is heading. it's heading towards the northeast. will continue to move that direction so don't be surprised if you see some thunderstorms

developing. we've already had multiple lightning strikes. we're still tracking cells that are just southwest. what's going to happen as they come on shore, we'll see brief downpours. really until sun set. we have a flood warning for parts of coyote creek until 2:25 friday and lower coyote creek area until 11:30 on tuesday. current height level for coyote creek flood warning is still in effect flood stage is ten feet. currently 10.2 feet. coming in just under nine feet. 1:00 this afternoon. you see the trend. it is slowly going to come down. that's where we're at right now. look at the shot from myers. snowing up in the sierra nevada. in the snow. about a foot three and a half

feet. right now chains are required on 50, 88, 4. heading across 80, sit fine. winter storm until 10:00 tonight. up tow a foot at the crest. only problem it's hazardous driving conditions with gusty winds and chain controls. no delays at sfo. we're watching those rain drops and temperatures in the low to upper 50s from san francisco to san jose. another live picture. beautiful one as we look towards the golden gate bridge. seeing peeks of blew. all it will way to fairfield, lovely view of what's to come from santa cruz camera. sun and isolated showers will remain this evening. break the next three days and rain returns this weekend. on our storm exact scale, current system is a one. light system this evening fast moving downpours. isolated thunder still possible. less than a quarter of inch of rain. hour by hour forecast.

see in east bay a few showers. 1:00 a.m. tomorrow can't rule out the possibility of a few showers developing, but really for the most party when you're day gets going, most of you will be enjoying dry conditions. sunday we have a moderate strength storm coming in. downpour presidency at time. threat renewed and winds gusting 20-30 miles an hour. weekend not a washout. saturday night 10:00 the rain begins to move in. continues around 9:00 a.m. most widespread on sunday. into 10:00 sunday night notice it's still coming in. rainfall potential highest in the north bay and santa cruz mountains. south bay quarter to three quarters of an inch. tomorrow morning chillie start. upper 30s, mid 40s. bund ul up tomorrow afternoon. partly cloudy skies and cooler day in the 50s. accuweather seven-day forecast. enjoy three dry days. one coming in saturday night. two moderate strengths on sunday and one on monday. download the abc news app and

help you keep track of the storms. >> let it be dry for a few days. >> i hear that a lot of social media lately. up next, meet the frog that can sit on your thumbnail. >> state of the art tra

dufrlg during an unofficial demonstration. some sort of interference from a news camera caused an issue with the drone's compass. abort eed launch. tried to land on top of the truck. nearly crushed by the still closing lid of the vehicle. scientists discovered a new frog. they can sit on a thumbnail. discovered in a forest of india along the western coast. they live on the forest floor

and make insect like holes at night. scientist says there are a lot of these new frogs. they were likely overlooked because they're so small. habitats are hard to

i'm ana. coming up abc 7 news at six. take you back live to san jose. coyote creek crested. problems worse than ever. flood victims need to be right now. tough questions for oakland's mayor in last week's standoff with a sniper. including lack of officers who put the public at risk. north bay students return down to earth advice from restaurants sharing common ground. coming up. >> thanks. we'll see you then. final thoughts about the rain the last 24 hours. had a ton.

found this calf wondering around last night. wet and scared. fair cared for her and took her to animal control after they couldn't find the owner. sheriffs department said she's not reunited with her mom. rained a lot when ducks start making themselves at home in the puddles. goaden gate park keeps flooding. under water for so long. ducks migrated there from the nearby ponds. folks in one county neighborhood not letting the rain dampen their spirits. abc 7 news. neighbors set up funny signs on funny streets. no fishing, swim at your own risk. no diving. the drought is over. fill your canteen. do that when your house isn't flooded. it's not funny for people by coyote creek. that's no joke. >> thanks for joining us. world news is coming up next. all of us here at abc 7 news. leave you with a beautiful

sunset. that is nice view. newscast is at 6:00. of course you can connect tonight, president trump's immigration crackdown revealed. the new and sweeping plan to deport undocumented immigrants across this country. who will be targeted? the growing number of anti-semitic threats in this country. the jewish cemetery desecrated. the fbi investigating. did the president wait too long before addressing it? what the white house is saying about that tonight. the flooding emergency playing out right now. trucks trapped in rising waters on the freeway, and yet another spillway being closely watched. a reservoir overflowing. and in the east tonight, the rescues from central park. the video now emerging. the young people falling through the ice. the deadly plane crash. four americans and the pilot killed after a plane slams into a shopping mall overseas. and your money tonight. the new report. why auto insurance is spiking.