richman you have rain. bridges are -- have rain. the winds died down.g we had the wind advisory, 50, 60, 70. up there. the winds died down when the front went through. again, i think we are fortunate a lot of folks weren't on the roads today. you look at the pictures, they were impressive. i can't remember too many storms where we saw that. when i come back i will show you what you can expect and how long. >>> the surf, the bay area coast line getting trashed from powerful waves. these pictures of the pacifica peer off the coast line today. national weather service is warning anyone visiting local beaches about dangerous rip currents. 15-20-foot breakers are hitting the coast. a high surf advisory is in effect through tomorrow morning. >>> in the oakland hills one home, all the rain caused the earth to give way. ktvu's john sasaki joins us live from the scene. >> reporter: this is the story of a house and a retaining wall. they are now very close. >> reporter: in oakland it storm run off is flowing fast. just after the heavy rains moved in this morning

very difficult to communicate, and the commander of that regiment in one of the battles we cover in "richman redeemed" -- said, we stood there when the confederates attacked and really could not contribute anything and would have been justified in leaving the field except for the obvious propriety of sharing the casualties with everybody else. well, that is not the way to win a battle, but that is often the consequence of this type of individual replacement. again, we think of another great new england fighting regiment, the fifth new england. the soaking road, the bloody road at antietam where colonel cross gave his charge across the wheat field at gettysburg. hampshirehe fifth new had to be stuck inside a readout different regiment with a different regiment guarding the gate to make sure the unit did not desert en masse. lacking commitment to the war effort in contrast to the original soldiers who had one such imperishable glory on the peninsula, antietam, and gettysburg. to the extent that those individual replacements have any merit at all, they, too, need time to learn soldiering and it

richman is definitely a lot to the user ride.he people evacuated from a mobile home park sematech atonic residents of a local home party. it has been a hectic few weeks for the residents displaced by the flooding and that room building has been especially tough on the children living in the part of this place just before christmas. it was very sad including me in this situation. i saw mom and dad's plants flowing around loss of two ways that are being left out that floating away. the san jose to a drive need your help. >>mark: donations are needed is still being accepted. >> reporter: toys level continue letter to this morning meeting of to christmas we saw real strong support from community guest today despite yes it is the nation's they're still well short of a goal of over 17,000 a little is the mayor is expected to be at this location to let his support to the toy drive helps to generate more lessons children wendy for the holiday. >>darya: his family is speaking out about how he's doing pedro perez survived that 11 story fal

> other colleagues are offering the congressman their support, including bobby jindal and cedrick richman>>> in washington michael steele, we knew why we wanted you here today. >> oh great. >> and the reason we want you here today, is to answer the age-old question will the i am a moron defense work for scalise in this regard? >> you know it probably will. in the long run. i think at the end of the day you know there's no evidence of scalise having these types of associations in the past or having uttered words that would link him to groups like this. you know at one level, a very base level, not to diminish the import of it this is poor staffing. one person working his calendar and booking him for these events to get his message out on this tax issue. as we have just discovered as robert costa noted, he had a relationship. that's one staffer, had a relationship with kenny. kenny had a relationship with david duke. so in the long run, this is going to be i don't think much. he's not going to step down from leadership. he's getting support from the leader and a few governors, republican go