. the bay area's major news of the day. frank somerville, julie haener, the 10:00 news on ktvu, channel 2 news, complete bay area news coverage. complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu, channel 2 news at 6:00. a treacherous scene of dejavu. rushing hour floods capitola for a second time. in the east bay a ridge is on the edge and why homeowners are being forced out. and rain-soaked roads are being shut down. the troubled spots tonight for

bay area travelers. good evening i'm ken wayne. heather holmes is off tonight. with flooding and blocked roads, the bay area has been inundated and some communities are overwhelmed. this is video right now in capitola. a video of the mess was sent to us of the floodwaters. our meteorologist is following the storm front. we begin with ktvu's jim vargas. >> ken, this is just devastating for some down here in capitola. we will show you what the flood left from 9 to 2 this afternoon there was a rushing river down there. >> reporter: this video was shot by a local resident just as crews thought they could beat the storm and replace the culvert that gave way two days ago. the destruction that started thursday. >> this was way worse than thursday. this is probably closer to

three feet coming out to do this damage. >> reporter: pretty bad? >> really bad. if you had a raft you may as well go rafting. >> so very, very high water just rushing so strongly with big waves going right down capitola. >> reporter: yes. >> just going into the village, horrible, horrible. >> reporter: at this point, no one even knows how many of the 4mobile homes in this park can be repaired. or when it's all over how much damage has been done to the rest of the town. the worst storm damage this town has suffered in anybody's memory the locals tell us. the deluge took the path of least resistance down a half mile through this picturesque village through streets and businesses. >> people who have lived here for 30 years have never seen this. >> reporter: any more rain will just add to the damage. that's why crews are up there again trying to repair the culvert pipe again. for more on the devastation and the people it is affecting,

let's go live now to ken. ken? >> reporter: jim right now standing on high ground above the affected area. this is the backside of city hall, the first floor of what flooded. capitola avenue is where the damage is done. >> reporter: the cleanup gained way in the afternoon and you can see several inches of mud in his garage. but the water is much higher. >> it was probably four foot here. you can see the line here. it kind of came all the way through here. we were just trapped. you know, thank god i was upstairs, you know. >> reporter: one resident shared with us cell phone video take of capitola avenue at the peak of the flood. several people described it as a river running through their community. nicole torch son's home was flooded with a foot of water. she has yet to figure the damage. >> it's terrible to deal with. it's terrible. >> reporter: nicole moved her

car minutes before the rushing water came in and it moved fast. >> in two minutes maybe it went from dry to a river just flowing through the whole street. >> reporter: the fire department was flooded and down capitola into capitola village the damage was widespread. feet of mud covered the streets and poured into businesses. scott says his shop is a total loss. >> the was was up above our knees throughout the entire shop. like a little mini tsunami came down. but didn't come from the ocean, it came from the hills. >> reporter: well, this high ground we are with on now is actually the parking lot behind city hall. it is a staging area for city crews. they even have this pile of sand here. this is for the residents here. one person with the city is actually said this is the second pile. few of them expected to be flooded twice in as many days. talked to a lot more people. a lot more video of the damage. we can bring that to you at

10:00. send it back to you. >> thank you, ken. meteorologist mark tamayo has tracked this all afternoon. and where do things stand right now? >> well, ken, the most intense rain is out of here. the focus was between 6 and 9:00 this morning. still some scattered showers 20 -- to talk about. the rain down in santa cruz county. this area took a direct hit from the significant extreme rainfall rates. put this into motion as you can see just the standard green showing up. look at what happens during the 7:00 hour, the yell he -- yellows and reds showing up. in capitola they picked up two and a half inches of rain. we put this into motion and the rain tapering off into the afternoon hours. that's what we have right now with a few lingering clouds in place. in the bay area impressive numbers for san francisco and san raphael. san jose just -- san jose just

under 2.10ths of an inch. not a lot to show you. a few scattered rain showers right around the bay. nothing too extreme. a few drizzles and activity up in the north bay as well. coming up we have one more system to talk about for tomorrow. it is a weak one. the temperature change and the one direction temperatures will be heading in the five day forecast. >> highway 9 and the santa cruz mountains remains closed. one mudslide is making the highway impassable between paradise park and the highway 1 interchange in santa cruz. a local firefighter says the intensity of the storms caught many by surprise. the rainfall is equivalent, you know, to a midwest downpour. if you've been there just the sky is opening and rain is coming an inch an hour or more, up to two inches an hour. >> a busload of washington state school students on its way to santa cruz was among those forced to wait it out this afternoon. those hoping to use graham hill

road in the santa cruz mountains experienced partial closures throughout the middle of the day. the sheriff's department said the road was finally reopened at 3:00 this afternoon. there are new concerns tonight about a slipping hillside in san pablo. the ground keeps moving and anxious residents are now being forced out of their homes. ktvu's deborah villalon is there where inspectors paid a visit today. deborah? >> reporter: well, inspectors did not like what they saw. this is moving by feet not inches. just last night the crack in this patio was more or less level. now you can see this backyard is disappearing down the hill. in the last few years -- hours. in the last three hours homes are yellow tagged. they are focused on leaving them and out to an uncertain future. the walker family got yellow tagged today meaning limited access, daytime only, no overnight stays. the it is the only home their

two daughters have ever known. even as they pack a social engineer collects data on the landslide trying to get a handle on how much worse it may get. >> i still have to be gone. i know for a couple of days i'm covered. but after that how am i covered or how it is going to be, who is going to be compensated or who is going to pay for it, no answers. >> eerie, very scary. >> reporter: that's how sandra gibons describes sleeping or trying to knowing the hill is coming down. today it pushes against her back door while yesterday there was still room to stand on her patio. and a 70-foot tree liens precariously overhead. >> we started packing before they even told us. >> reporter: started packing even before the sun came up. now with her house newly tagged, too, friends and family help bring belongings out headed for storage in the short term. >> it's a lifetime. the hard part is, you know, when you take down the pictures, you know. those are the most important things to her. taking down the pictures, it

gets pretty emotional. >> reporter: do you expect to ever come back? >> i really hope we can. but i don't know. i really don't. >> reporter: the stress, the uncertainty, just the exhaustion of the passed three days is taking a toll on homeowners here. they are looking to the city for help. so far, a lot of analysis but not very many answers. their future is about as clear as mud. reporting live in san pablo, deborah villalon, ktvu, channel 2 news. water everywhere, but none to drink tonight in parts of pleasantton. about 160 homes on pleasantton ridge have no water or weak pressure in their pipes. a landslide yesterday damaged the water main. crews have installed a bike pass but hope to have a permanent fix by monday. officials say residents in the area who do have water should sterile eyes it before drinking. >> heavy snowfall and accidents made travel difficult into the sierra this afternoon. snow fell down to the 3,000- foot level but at times it turned to sleet with poor

visibility. drivers on i-80 in placer county were stuck for hours, some trapped behind big rig miss happens. tonight chains are required on i-80 from cisco to the doner lake interchange. no chain requirements on highway 50 but a high wind advisory is in place. just an hour ago sonoma water officials told us 1800- gallons of water have leaked out of a manhole in sonoma. it began at 9:00 when the waste water system began overflowing 2-5 every minute. the water district says it is flowing into the nearby sonoma creek but unlikely to harm fish or wildlife. the north bay is also trying to cope from all of this intense rainfall. coming up in eight minutes the challenges there from the store. our coverage continues on ktvu.com including a brand new slide show that shows before a and after the flooding struck

capitola. just click on the storm watch tab. >> several hundred protestors marched in san francisco today to call for change in yemen. it began in the plaza in civic center. one group told us they were trying to send a message to the obama administration to stop supporting yemen's government. >> we want a peaceful transition of the government. we want the president to leave immediately and give a chance for other people and for the young people to take over and establish a better constitution and establish better law and order. >> after the rally the group marched down market street calling for support of the uprising in yemen. in libya today, rebels are celebrating the retreat of government troops from a key city. (chanting). >> after a fears battle and air assault by coalition forces rebels took back adabia.

moammar gadhafi's planes two weeks ago bombed that town. u.s. president obama says the mission is succeeding. >> we are succeeding in our missions. moammar gadhafi's forces are no longer it will moving across libya. >> reporter: president obama will address the u.s. about their involvement in the war. trying to get water to northern japan for drinking and cooling the troubled nuclear reactor. the u.s. navy has shipped barges containing half a million gallons of fresh water and the air force has flown 500 tonnes of water to sendei. at the plant levels of iodine in the sea water now measure 1200 times higher than safety limits. but officials say it will be so dill outed it is not a threat to marine life. the rain didn't deter some little fundraisers. the difference they say this run today will make in their

education. plus our storm watch continues. why repair efforts are on hold tonight along this stretch of coastal highway. [ music ] . now you can wake up to complete bay area news coverage seven days a week. ktvu, channel 2 news is now on saturday and sunday with mike mibach and tony wong.

. a computer glitch grounded 60 alaska and horizon air flights today. san jose airport tells us three alaskan air flights to seattle were cancelled this morning. sfo and oakland airport reported no problems. alaska says power to its mainframe computer was knocked out overnight, grounding 15% of its fleet. no word on when the system will be fully restored. the oakland school's chief today apologized to hundreds of teachers who were handed pink slips. this while students pounded the pavement today to raise much needed money for their classes. ktvu's mike mibach was there. >> some students ran. others decided to walk lap

after lap around their school they went for five hours. >> it helps raise money for our teachers and everything. >> reporter: 250 elementary school students and their parents walked for a purpose hoping to raise $2500 they are not getting from the state. >> 100% of the money goes towards the pta. they fund the physical education program, the music problems, our library, the teacherer's aids. or or. >> reporter: even and in the rain these little feet continue to shuffle and hoping that the sunshine financially on the district. that was exactly the topic downtown in oakland city hall. today a town hall meeting to hammer out the issue of public school funding in oakland. >> how many children can you stuff into a room? whole schools have been gutted. >> the more diverse the state has become the less well funded education has been. >> reporter: observing unified district superintendent tony smith.

>> from my perspective it is one of the clearest examples of racism in the united states. >> reporter: they apologized for the pink slips that teachers got this month and it could get worse. >> currently we are being audited against the state was in charge and that's up to 22 million. >> reporter: back at the elementary school. >> maybe we have to raise a little bit more money, you know. it's always been like that for this school. >> reporter: this annual fundraiser will keep on running. mike mibach, ktvu, channel 2 news. as we've seen, parts of the bay area cannot soak up any more water tonight. in mill valley three homes were evacuated this morning after a mudslide on ethel avenue. no one was hurt but the local authorities say it may be necessary to build a retaining wall to save the homes. in santa rose is a some drivers had to turn back from todd road near the highway while others plowed right on through despite the heavy run- off that covered the road in more than two feet of water.

one of many roads in the bay area that are covered by water. in woodside highway 84 between skyline boulevard and portola road was closed from just after 8:30 this morning to 4:00 this afternoon while work crews removed debris from the roadway. police tell ktvu a section of redwood red road will remain closed indefinitely. a recent storm washed away the roadside. neighbors say they will have to fix it because it is on private party. a 45-mile stretch of the big sur coast remains cut-off at beth ends. heavy rain has forced them to abandon efforts today to clear a rock slide near rock kiln state park. the rock came down 40 miles to the north and fell into the ocean. caltrans crews will attempt tomorrow to clear that slide. the ground is saturated. mark tamayo is in the weather center. i think a lot of us are saturated. we have had our fill of rain.

>> it has been busy with multiple strong storms moving through the bay area. we have one more to go. it will not be strong. a significant change in the weather pattern. i think you might like it if you are tired of the rain falling. on live stormtracker 2 watching a few showers, nothing too extreme up towards part of the north bay. we will shift the maps to the south. we will show you a little bit of activity closer to the bay right around fremont and san francisco and oakland. not all of this is reaching the ground but we could have some sprinkles or some spotty drizzle out there. the overall weather story we do have this mostly cloudy skies. still a chance of a shower. the extended forecast we finally pull back on the rain clouds and heading in the next direction. the weather system is developing not too impressive in the satellite or in the forecast as well but it will impact our forecast with more clouds and showers mainly targeting the north bay.

as we head into monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday no rain cloud. the dry weather pattern and a warming trend and at least some 60s out there. in fact by thursday and friday we will be talking about a few mid-70s. so a significant jump in the numbers with a rain-free forecast. that is after tomorrow. here is our forecast model tomorrow morning at 9:00. a few sprinkles up in the north bay but mainly some clouds out there. take this into the afternoon. that gradually spreads to the south by late tomorrow afternoon into the evening hours. rainfall projections may be just a trace in the south bay and the higher end of the temperature of the rainfall range will be maybe just a quarter of an inch up in the north bay for the coastal hills. not a major deal but still a few more drops to contend with for tomorrow. the forecast beginning at 7:00. mostly cloudy skies 45 to right around 50 degrees. a few north bay showers at 12:00. by 4:00 the chance of a shower. those chances are somewhat on the increase by late tomorrow afternoon into the evening

hours. temperatures mainly in the 50s. a few neighborhoods are approaching the lower 60s. as you can see for san jose and morgan hill. here is the five day forecast. we have all been waiting for. monday will be dry. temperatures will continue to warm up a little bit. but look what happens for tuesday, wednesday and thursday. ken, plenty of sunshine out there. temperatures, in fact, we are talking about some mid-70s by thursday and friday. around 74 to 75 degrees. and even beyond that we could be talking about more of a dry weather pattern. so it's just around the corner. >> 70 degrees sound so good right now. >> it seems so far away, but it's on its way. >> we will make it. we will hang in there. >> sure. >> thank you, mark. >> the sacramento delta will continue to get its federally mandated share of runoff to protect the endangered delta smelt. the 9th court of appeal yesterday rejected argument that the fish are not protected by the commerce clause because only found in california.

the clause allows congress to protect them from the act. homeowners learned the basics of protecting their homes from earthquakes and retrofitting and contractor bids and the need for an emergency earthquake kit. they say now is a good time to remind people how to be prepared. >> because of the japan earthquake we think people are paying attention. we don'twant to have what happened in japan happen in the bay area. >> she says adequate retrofitting can ensure you will have a home to live in after an earthquake. well, you are probably out of luck. where that winning ticket was bought for last night's $312 million jackpot. [ music ]

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sports. hooping and hollering going on over in the sports department. the night continues. >> every team is good at this final point. that's what they were trying to prevent today against 8th seeded butler. gators took the 11 point lead. parsons dishes. but they got in foul thereby when mack drove for two of his 27 points. the game was tied at 57 with three minutes to go. went to overtime tied at 60. in overtime walker hits the three. and it is florida by a point. [ applause ] >> the bulldogs come right back down to the next possession and match that earth -- effort. mack with a three of his own and butler is back in front by two. it came down to this, the gators needed three to tie. kenny cranks one off the front rim. the bulldogs screw the ball out and the small school from

indianapolis can celebrate another win in its win over florida. today's other game just wrapped up. yukon moves on and into the final four after eliminating arizona by a bucket. high school state championship games in sacramento where things haven't gone so well for the teams. in division four finals richmond fell to winward of la for the boys. also the girls champion after winning st. mary's of berkeley. less than a week away from opening day and the giants would like to sharpen up. sharp did not describe tim lincecum today against the reds. he faced lewis with two on in the fourth. a 4-1 lead for the reds. lincecum allowed 11 hits and six runs in seven innings. the giants broke loose. andre torres against chapman

with bases loaded and nobody out. that is the third hit of the today for torres who drives in two. the giants got six in the inning and went on to win 9-6 ending a spring losing streak at five. stanford women play tonight in spokane against north carolina. have that tonightat 10 on sports wrap. you will of the -- all of the rest of the day's sports and we will see you then. >> busy day. >> thank you, joe. >> sure. >> coming up on the 10:00 news tonight ktvu storm watch as we watch the damage in capitola and the road slide tonight on the 10:00 news. for everyone here joe, mark, thanks for joining us. our next newscast is at 10:00 news. hope to see you then. have a good night.