alan wong, abc 7 news. >>> the santa cruz mountains are also seeing storm damage. street and utility crews have been working to clear rock slides as well as downed power lines. sergio quintana has more. >> reporter: the rainy day triggered a bunch of problems for communities. caltrans trucks mobilized to clear certain spots from rock slides and aptos crews had to cordon off this area, the slide was too much to be easily plowed off the road by a single truck, crews with backhoes may have to return later this week why end to clear this weekend. ist christopher ring found a telephone crew prepping a telephone pole. >> my phone has been out for a while, i don't know whether it's connected with this event or not. >> reporter: a couple miles away on california highway 9 crews had been blocking a neighborhood side treat for hours, a tree came down and a storm taking out a phone line and power lines. we could hear some residents using gas fueled generators for the evening because of this outage. even with the power out and phone line problems, mr. ring was not complaining

abc 7 news reporter alan wong has more. >> he taught honors chemistry and integrated science. >> reporter andrea martinez says 27-year-old eric hankins was her chemistry teacher at fairfield high school. >> he got along with the students and talked to us a lot, too. he was really friendly. >> reporter: this was his first year at fairfield high but it didn't last long, hankins was arrested on new year's eve and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior is a 14-year-old student. police say it happened on campus in early december. >> how does something like that happen on campus? that shouldn't be happening. >> reporter: hankins was placed on administrative leave until his arrest. >> two days ago i received an e-mail from another chemistry teacher saying that he is no longer going to be our teacher and he will be taking over for us. >> to know that someone was taking advantage of their privileges and rights as a teacher is disgusting. >> reporter: police also be searched hankins' home for evidence of an ongoing relationship with the student. the fairfield-suisun unified school district was u

in fremont, alan wong abc.sÑ 7 news. >> turning now to el nino.Ñ3 and the new winter storm now approachinge bay area that is being fueled by it. this time-k tomorrow night pars of the bay area will see rain and a lot of it. here's sandhya and live doppler 7hd. >> yes. the rain will be accompanied by wind as well. mentioned around this time tomorrowsj night. what is very impressive is the way out towards the hawaiian islands. so it is going to dump some heavy rain. already kicking-q up the surf. high surf advisory until 3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. watch out for the large breakers. we track the storm on the impact scale one is light 5 is severe. incoming storm is moderate. two on the impact scale. comes here tuesday night into wednesday morning. 3rd of april inch to inch of rain heavier in the north and we lock at wind gustsr÷ to hour. want come back for. it's the 7 day forecast i haven't%ú seen in years. beside that we'll look at the time lean of this rain and win wind. amma. >> thank you sandhya reminder trust the abc 7 news app to get you weather forecast on the go. unable push alert for

in fremont, alan wong abc.sÑ 7 news. >> turning now to el nino.Ñ3 and the new winter storm now approachinge bay area that is being fueled by it. this time-k tomorrow night pars of the bay area will see rain and a lot of it. here's sandhya and live doppler 7hd. >> yes. the rain will be accompanied by wind as well. mentioned around this time tomorrowsj night. what is very impressive is the way out towards the hawaiian islands. so it is going to dump some heavy rain. already kicking-q up the surf. high surf advisory until 3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. watch out for the large breakers. we track the storm on the impact scale one is light 5 is severe. incoming storm is moderate. two on the impact scale. comes here tuesday night into wednesday morning. 3rd of april inch to inch of rain heavier in the north and we lock at wind gustsr÷ to hour. want come back for. it's the 7 day forecast i haven't%ú seen in years. beside that we'll look at the time lean of this rain and win wind. amma. >> thank you sandhya reminder trust the abc 7 news app to get you weather forecast on the go. unable push alert for

. >> 7 news reporter alan wong is on the phone. he's at the scene and what can you tell us about the situation right now? >>reporter: well, amma, this has been going on for almost nine hours and crowd of neighbors have been anxiously waiting for the victim's head to pop out of the trench but so far no luck. oakland firefighters have been trying to rescue the man buried up to his waist in a trench that collapsed around him about 12:30 this afternoon. the victim identified as 4 41-year-old man worked for star rooter and plumbing and he was trying to get a sewer lean on east 23rd home to the main sewage pipe under the street. but the main sewage pipe was buried so deep they had to dig a long narrow trench 13 feet down. fire official tells us the built from plywood to hold back the wall of that trench. now the soil has consistency of sand which is making it very difficult to hold back. that's why they are using a street clean tore vacuum the dirt out of the trench while they dig. now at this point rescue workers are concerned about the