i'm kate lash clash clash >> i'm "abc7 news" starts now. >> live where you live, this is "abc7 news." >> a dire warning for people living along the russian river tonight, get out now. the river has reached flood stage and the worst is far from over. >> evacuation orders are in effect for two dozen communities. you can see them listed on this map. the county has set up two evacuation centers to accept evacuees. >> we are live with a look at the flooding in guerneville. lisa? >> reporter: as you can see, the road closed signs are up due to flooding. lots of school districts are also closed because of the water level. it is rising fast. this storm is no joke and should

be taken seriously. deputies are going door to door telling people to evacuate, and all of these orders should not be ignored. they are clearing out. this u-haul is packed tight. nw the owners friends are showing up to get as many valuables as possible out. >> i'm going to be out of business for a couple months probably. >> reporter: officials expect the live tore rise to 46 feet by wednesday night. >> if it comes up ten more feet, it will be in this neighborhood. >> reporter: that's why glenn hurley is leaving his home, but not before raising off much as he can off the ground, including his washer and dryer. >> i have a flat bottom boat and two kayaks down there. >> reporter: for the first time the county is evacuating its cold weather shelter and moving the homeless to the santa rosa

pavilion. large buses were brought in to move as many as 100 people. >> it's going to be dangerous. these roads will be impassable. nobody will get in or out without a boat or water rescue vehicle. >> reporter: a deputy came here to get her up and out. >> i said we're here to tell you that the evacuation bus is right across the street. >> reporter: the russian river is expected to impact businesses, as well. accessing anything downtown will be impossible. in fact, there's someone just over my left shoulder who has to turn around because this road is closed due to the rising water levels. tomorrow's storm levels may not be record breaking, but one sergeant did tell me that he expects it to be in the top five of the strongest in the county's history. >> lisa, thank you. our deluge is expected to swell

the russian river 14 feet above flood stage by tomorrow night. our media partners determined the spots in guerneville likely to suffer flooding if that happens. the safeway store, the post office, and the elementary school. let's go to sandhya patel with live doppler 7. >> yeah, that atmospheric river is shifting, so other parts of the bay area are seeing the soaking rain. let's get to live doppler seven and talk about where it's coming down still in the north bay. on street level radar, petaluma hill road, seeing rainfall. there are flood warnings for much of the north bay, for good reason. they have been getting soaked from vacaville heading into fairfield. daley city, san francisco seeing some of that drenching rain. tracking where the heaviest

where the rain is heading. towards oakland,oakland,oaklandl coming down and it is steady. lighter in san jose. willow glenn, campbell as. the santa cruz mountains, some downpours here. rainfall totals in the north bay, 6 to 12 inches in 24 hours. and still counting. i'll be back with a look at the commute coming up. >> sandhya, thank you. flooding and reports of mudslides in sonoma county in the northwest part of monta rio. we're told this is kid creek, and the water is almost raging. a ewer tells abc 7 that austin creek is also flooding a highway and is three feet deep and rising. a mudslide trapped two

people earlier today. crews sloshed through knee hide mud to make that rescue. >> going through the mud, the tree was over the top of me. it happened so fast, you don't even know. i see an image of a tree, it's not there, it's there. you know what i mean? >> crack, crack, crack. we heard the trees, we saw a giant like these huge redwoods coming down. >> the stretch of the highway is now closed indefinitely. >> i'm kate larson, live in santa rosa where it's been raining for two days. not only one of the wettest months but the wettest way on record with six inches of rain. visitors to the golden gate bridge likely had something in mind besides ponchos when they planned their day. on the north end of the bridge, new k-rails were set up to catch mud or debris.

while rain continues to soften the hillside, the city is trying to recover from the hillside that damaged or destroyed eight homes on valentine's day. in fairfax, traffic worked through a flooded intersection on sir francis drake boulevard that left this pickup truck stuck in the rising mud-tinged water. once the sun set, north bay roads were black. with only tail and headlights visible to drivers battling through the rain. a tough night to deliver pizza said justin. >> people falling off the road, spinning out. police are closing off a lot of the area. >> reporter: in sonoma county, there was flooding near stoney point road. and in santa rosa, six inches of rain met records. >> especially with us being in the drought for so long, we needed it. but honestly, it's crazy.

>> reporter: don't get stuck in one of those flooded out roadways. the message remains the same. turn around or go around. as for justin, that pizza delivery man, he says that people have been very understanding when he hasn't shown up on time. he has been delivering for 12 straight hours. a popular night for delivery dinner. kate larson, "abc7 news." >> kate, thank you. here's a good reason not to ignore flooded warnings. crews had to rescue a driver who went around barricades and ended up in a flooded ditch on stoney point road. >> the napa river is expected to peak above flood stage tomorrow morning. "abc7 news" discovered several areas in napa already water logged. napa has closed some public areas and parks. flooding is not expected in downtown. a bypass built in 2015 is working as designed.

>> keep an eye on some of the rising creek levels on live cameras online. check out this on bridge street where you can see the water is nearing flood warning stage. the chp says the weather likely caused a deadly crash, when a tow truck driver was helping out a prius, and a pickup spun out and slammed into him. the driver of the prius was not hurt. weather like this typically makes just a mess at sfo, as you know. 344 flights were delayed today, another 183 canceled outright. power tonight. this is pg&e's realtime outage map. more than 3200 customers are in the dark with the highest concentration in the north bay. >> drivers are being told to avoid the sierra until thursday. interstate 80 is closed all the

way to the state line. caltrans will re-evaluate conditions in the morning. chain controls were lifted at 9:00 p.m. check the weather condition where is you live with live doppler 7 on our website and the "abc7 news" app. click the blue bar at the top. and be sure to tune in to "abc7 news" in the morning at 4:30 a.m. we'll have coverage of the storm, evacuation orders and the impact on the morning commute. a mom in gilroy goes viral. that story is next. >> plus, day four and no deal. how much the oakland teacher strike is costing the district per day. splashing over the spillway. see what's creating quite the buzz at a north bay lake. >> here's a look at what's coming up on jimmy kimmel live. >> if you've ever wondered what

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i'm meteorologist drew tuma. take a look at is.eoray has than5 inches of rainfallretoem0o inch. that's 300 times more in the north bay than the south bay. a wide range of rainfall totals with this event. this is the famous spillway in napa county a week ago. dry as can be. look at that. and then add a storm that dumps several inches of rain and take a look at what happens. water is overflowing and the spillway is active once again. the water goes into a hole, kind of like the drain in the kitchen sink, travels about 200 feet to a creek. the last time the reservoir overflowed was february of 2017. with all the rain, drenching the north bay, numerous rivers and creeks are rising very quickly. we have compiled a map on our

website, abc7news.com. moving on, the teacher strike in oakland will enter a fifth day after an all-day negotiation session didn't produce a deal. both sides say some progress has been made in the talks since the state superintendent arrived and got involved. but the strike is proving to be very costly for the district. it says only 6% of students have shown up each day, which equates to about $1 million lost every day in funding. a bay area mom is going viral for an adorable cooking lesson. >> to cute. her daughter, april, is away at college, so she needed help remembering how to fold a burrito. >> and mom was happy to help. >> reporter: sylvia dominguez's how-to is a hit. she recorded herself rolling the perfect burrito to help out her daughter at college. >> i realized i didn't know how to fold it.

so i took a picture. >> translator: i got a lump in my throat after seeing it didn't turn out, so i say i'm going to make a video. >> reporter: the 41-second video, then uploaded to twitter. then hitting the heart strings of hundreds of thousands with more than 10,000 writing. >> i've seen a lot of comments of people saying they wished they had that kind of relationship with their mom. >> she says, mom, i can't believe that it went so far. and i say, maybe it's not the burrito. >> reporter: she believes it's more about family. the added internet thing just an added bonus. that viral video as of tuesday night has been viewed more than 10 million times. probably 20 times by me. but hey, look, it's all worth it. because i got it down. and you can too, just go to

abc7news.com for that viral video. >> that's cute. >> all right. let's talk about this terribly dangerous storm moving across the bay area and will continue to get worse. >> meteorologist sandhya patel has the details for us. >> this is a strong level three storm. the atmospheric river shifting into the san francisco area, east bay, south bay. i know people have been asking about it. it has been dumping rain in the north bay. i'm going to get you into street level rainfall. as we take a look at this batch of moisture, it's heading towards richmond. 11:22 p.m. so get ready, san francisco getting soaked from the richmond district all the way to the great highway. and we head down the peninsula, across 280. getting some moderate rainfall. into the east bay, some

downpours from oakland to piedmont, sadain south bay. intensity picking up from cupertino, the santa cruz mountains getting dumped on. the russian river at guerneville at 39 feet. flood stage is 32. major flooding is expected. tomorrow night it will crest over 40 feet. so a dicey situation there. the napa river at flood stage. tomorrow morning, it will come up to 27.4 feet. a flood watch until 4:00 a.m. thursday for the north bay and heavy rain continuing to cause those problems with the river flooding. flash flood watch now extended to 6:00 a.m. wednesday, because the small streams and creeks will continue. winds are gusty out of the south, 29 miles an hour in san jose. 31 in santa rosa.

mt. tam, 41 miles an hour. power lines could go out and trees knocked down. 55 to 65-mile-an-hour winds not out of the question. the temperatures, 40s and 50s. it's a slippery view here. a level three storm. tonight, moderate to heavy rain. wind gusts will cause problems. here's the hour by hour look. 1:30, still widespread rain. 4:00 a.m., we're going to get a soaking part of the storm coming through across the north bay. 5:00 a.m., still looking at wet roadways between 7:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. noontime, scattered showers, and we'll continue s showers funneling into the north bay. additionally, over an inch for some of you, turning to snow in

the mountains. two to five feet of snow. up to eight feet for the peaks. tomorrow, 40s, 50s. watch out for the wind. 50s and 60s in the afternoon with scattered showers. a he feel two tomorrow. level one thursday morning. a lighter system for the weekend. one, saturday and sunday and a level one on tuesday. this storm has really just drenched the north bay. and now it's spreading. >> tanks, sandhya. tomorrow on "good morning america" they're live to talk about the new season of "american idol."

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good evening. the sharks wrapped up a four-game road trip in boston where they were beaten and beaten up. the teams honor the family of an honored police officer before the game. first period, hertl digging. couture poking. it's a power play goal. 1-0, sharks. in the second, it's 3-1, boston. sharks on the power play. brad marchand beats jones to make it 4-1. this is trouble right here. carlson has been out with a strained groin, down again.

things got wild in the third. chara hits cain on the head and he goes after the captain and dumps him on the ice. then he gets pummelled, because chara decides, i'm going to punch you in the face! and he did. bruins win in decisive fashion, 4-1. while we wait on bryce harper and a decision, mike trout and the angels visiting the a's. jarrod parker doubles to right. angels up 1-0. a's answer in the bottom half of the inning here. steven piscotti with a drive to left. a play at the plate and siemian is called out, and then safe. rodney walks trout. all angels from there. they win 17-5. and the giants beat the reds 4-3. nba tonight. paul george and the thunder

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