live on the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news . now at noon, piles of debris, cars muddied and ruined , homes and businesses left a mess as the russian river

waters recede. we are starting to see the damage left behind. thank you for joining us, i am can enjoy. >> and i am michelle green and gold. this afternoon, some evacuees are being allowed back to their homes. the sonoma county sheriff's office has just lifted the evacuation order. >> reporter: despite the evacuation order in place, a lot of people finally decided to stay. >> the water was here and the water came all the way through. >> reporter: david is one of many sweeping away and the remaining water and washing off the trail of mud that is left behind. >> it just kind of disrupts your whole life. this one was fast, 35 feet. and it's like, oh, no, it is time to get home. and we started

grabbing stuff and making sure that everything was taken care of. >> reporter: agnes and her husband were finally able to emerge from their homes this morning after being stranded inside for days. they stay despite the evacuation order. >> we didn't think it would be such a major, major flood. we have written out a number of other floods but nothing like this this was certainly over- the-top. >> reporter: as you drive through guerneville, not much escape the flood. now the cleanup begins after the emotional shock and remaining water recedes. >> you got no idea that it collapses and everything is out here on the road. we are just overwhelmed. it is beyond what anyone could think. >> reporter: here on the main strip of downtown guerneville, a lot of these businesses

remain relatively untouched and some are open for business today. jackie ward, kpix 5. chp has a checkpoint set up right now making sure only residents get back in town. the sonoma county sheriff's office hopes to allow the public back into guerneville tomorrow. while this is new video from chopper 5 over flood waters this week. submerging the town shopping district. it is starting to dry out now but some places like this gas station are still a muddy mess. business owners are hoping to get things back up and running sometime next week. in marin county, the westbound lanes of highway 37 are still closed today after the road was inundated with flooding. crews have been working to pump it out. the eastbound lanes are open. crews are working around the clock to keep them dry. anne makovic has more from oakland where teachers plan to raleigh outside of a school board meeting in less than 2 hours.

>> reporter: that was after a school board meeting was canceled by their picketing on wednesday. we are on day #7 and the teachers say they are standing strong. 3000 teachers, nurses, counselors and other staff members continue to walk the picket lines outside of schools across the city. >> we have a momentum in our favor. >> reporter: the teacher began last thursday after 2 years of failed negotiations between the union and the school district. the teachers union wants a 12% raise over 3 years. almost doubling its offer to 10% over 4 years. >> strikes require the bars to confront their priorities because of the crisis we have created for them. >> reporter: later today, the school board is set to vote on

the district's proposal to make almost $22 million in budget cuts for the next school year. >> if we are going to do the kinds of things we want to do, we have to make changes. >> reporter: each day this goes on, the district is losing about 1 million in funding. only 6% of students have crossed the picket line to attend school. do you have any concerns for their education? >> a week as a week. it is not great but our students are strong. our families are strong. >> reporter: many students are joining their teachers in the protest. >> we are learning about different kinds of rallies and how to protest effectively. >> reporter: today's is set for 2:00 p.m. and oakland. kpix 5. 5 san mateo county sheriff's deputies will not face any criminal charges for the taser -related death of an unarmed man in october.

the district attorney just released new body camera video today. >> on the ground! it on the ground! >> reporter: officers say they 1st spotted colby walking in and out of traffic when officers try to talk to him, they say he resisted. that is when they warned him they would take him but he ran off individually fell to the ground after getting tased. officers tried to engage the taser a few more times but they say it didn't take. he was able to get up and walk away. when an officer swung a baton at him, he punched the officer in the face. he died after deputies used a taser on him. >> this is a horrible tragedy. there is no perception or angle of looking at this in any manner that is not a tragedy for the in the family.

for he, his family and the deputy sheriffs and their families and what they have had to go through. >> reporter: paramedics at the scene say he appeared to be moving when they arrived but had gone into cardiac arrest as they put him into the ambulance. some activists are calling for a state investigation. they plan to rally this afternoon on el camino real. san jose police are investigating a woman's death as the 7th homicide of the year . officers responded to the reports of a dead body yesterday afternoon. they found the woman's body in the home. the circumstances have not yet been released. no information on the suspect. 2 cracked windows have been discovered at the salesforce tower. building inspectors have confirmed that one south facing window on the 12th floor and and east tasting window on the 4th for floor. since the damages on the inside, there is

no danger of glass falling on the street. washington state governor is the latest democrat to enter the race for the white house. >> it is our moment to solve america's most daunting challenge and make it the 1st, foremost and paramount duty of the united states and that is to defeat climate change. he says climate change will be the main topic of this campaign. he is the 1st governor in the 2020 presidential race. president trump is firing back after michael cohen's fiery claims on capitol hill. the president says it is all along. >> reporter: president trump sent out a flurry of tweets this morning about the testimony of his former lawyer and fixer. the president called michael cohen discredited saying he committed perjury and also called his congressional hearing this week that testimony

. >> i thought it was a terrible display of dishonesty, actually. >> reporter: president trump appeared on fox news with sean hannity. they refuted the testimony that the president authorized hush money payments to 2 women who claimed to have affairs with mr. trump. >> he said to me many times that he made the decision on the payments and he did not tell you. >> he did and he made the decision and remember this, he is an attorney. whatever decision he makes, you are supposed to rely on your attorney to make a decision. >> reporter: michael cohen gave about 30 hours of testimony this week. he claims to have more evidence to back up his allegation. >> we have additional documents request that we will be discussing. >> reporter: democrats plan to call more of president trump former allies to the hill. the house intelligence committee hopes to grill the chief financial officer, allen weisselberg, about his alleged involvement in hush money

payments and he will interview philip feder about the trump tower moscow project that michael cohen was involved in. republican congressman, jim jordan and mark meadows are accusing: of perjury and have asked the department of justice to investigate. the cotillion, cbs news, the white house. because attorney called jordan -- a powerful earthquake strikes southern peru overnight. the usgs says it was a magnitude 7.1 and hit east of austin gato. airport officials in chicago are on high alert today. they say a midway airport passenger may have exposed people to measles. they believe he was infected when they took he or she to the

hospital on february 2. right now, the airport and the hospital are the only 2 places where police think people may have been exposed. you can develop symptoms as late as march 20. suing its own mechanics. the claims against the union. space that's about to launch. ace that's about to launch.

new at noon, giant left is revealing its financial details before it starts selling it's stocked to the public. the san francisco-based company says its revenue grew from $443 million in 2016 to 1.1 billion in 2017 to 2.7 billion in 2018. the 1st to file an ipo. uber is expected to file later this year. southwest airlines is suing its mechanics union for reporting excessive maintenance issues that are grounding an unusually high number of planes . the carrier says it is a coordinated effort to gain leverage in ongoing contract negotiations. the union has denied any work action against the airline. some airline mechanics felt

pressured to overlook potential safety problems to get planes in the air more quickly. early tomorrow, spacex will launch its new spaceship on a critical test flight. capable one day of caring people and will travel to the space station. mark strassmann reports from the kennedy space center. >> we have our advisors down. >> reporter: its final approach . straight ahead, the international space station. but they are not 250 miles above earth. this is a training simulation at the headquarters of spacex in hawthorne, california. >> confirm continuation in progress. >> reporter: the 1st officer not to climb aboard a falcon 9 rocket and into spacex's new ship called crew dragon. falcon 9 is the company were course watching 20 times last

year but crew dragon needs a successful test flight called demo 1 the 4th spacex can fly people. the goal is to prove it can safely dock and undocked from the space station, reenter the earth's atmosphere and splashdown off the florida coast. >> and we have splashdown. >> reporter: your mission is? >> riding on success of #1. >> i am from missouri, the show me state and having those successes under your belt goes a long way. >> reporter: you wanted to go wrong when it is unscrewed. expect yes. >> reporter: the final lift off of atlanta's. once the space journal program ended in 2011, nasa has had one option to get to the space station. to ride with the russians, a round-trip ticket cost $81

million per seat. that is now changing. nasa has hired 2 companies, spacex and boeing to design and build new space taxis. both companies have learned space is hard. both are running more than 2 years behind schedule. and with neither yet certified to fly people, nasa is considering buying 2 more seats to guantee continued american access to the space station. >> are you concerned about the delays? >> so we don't like delays. but worse than a delay is launching something that is not ready. inside the crew dragon, spacex will send up a smart dummy nicknamed ripley to gauge the impact of the blight. for nearly a month, tax

refunds are starting to increase according to the irs. the average check is now $3143 on par with last year's numbers and the increase is a change from the recent downward trend of smaller checks. taking a look at wall street and seeing how the dow is doing, it is up about 100 points right now. let's get a check on the weather. an all-important weekend just because it is the weekend. [ laughter ] of course! we are looking forward to it all week long and now it is here. here's a live look at the salesforce camera. temperatures are running into the low to mid 50s right now. concorde, 56. oakland, 53. 52 in livermore as well as downtown san francisco so driver now on high-def doppler that you can see offshore there is the rain so we are looking at more rain as we head through

tonight into tomorrow. i will time that out for you in a moment but a quick check of the russian river currently at 32.68 feet. that is down to flood stage and will continue to recede as we go through the day. very shortly, it will be at flood stage and we will continue to see the rivers drop as we go through the day. especially by the weekends, below flood stage. there is our next system and that will bring the return of the rain. it is not a strong storm and we are not looking at a lot of rain. and i will type it out for you on futurecast as we thank you through the afternoon. dry and stopping the clock again at 9pm, you can see the rain beginning to course in overnight and tomorrow morning. a wet start to the day. watch how quickly the rain exits, that heavy widespread soaking rain, we are looking at scattered showers for saturday afternoon and a few showers for

sunday. we are not talking about a lot of rain, a 2:45 quarters of an inch of rain, one or 2 ridges for some isolated places in the hills but we will see levels below flood stage for the weekend. we are tracking an atmospheric river. at this point, it looks like it will be to our south so for central and southern california dealing with that heavy rain of atmospheric river next week. 639 tomorrow morning, daytime highs in the upper 50s to low to mid 60s so rain returns tonight into tomorrow morning. scattered showers. a break on monday and more rain on tuesday and wednesday but hopefully, thankfully not an atmospheric river next week. still ahead, steak made through a 3-d printer. ahead, steak made through a 3-d printer.

a spanish company wants to create conscious carnivores one steak at a time. >> it is an innovative entrie that goes from printer to pan.

this begins steak is made with a 3-d printer in under 10 minutes with ingredients like rice peas and seaweed. the company's founder came up with the idea 2 years ago. >> it is about raised meat, a substitute. >> reporter: the 3-d stakes are still not available to buy and for now, the company hopes to expand their food options to 3- d printed tuna steaks and chicken breast. a reminder, if you have a consumer problem or question, email us at kpix.com or call 888 5 helps u

coming up at 5, would you buy a car you cannot test drive? we take a look at tesla's extraordinary step of closing retail stores and selling only online. we will have that story and much more coming up at 5. the bad news is we have more rain on the way. the good news is that it is not that much. our levels will stay below flood stage. >> that is going to do it for kpix 5 news! >> we hope you enjoy your weekend and we hope to see you back here on monday morning. back here on monday morning.

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