. >> reporter: ben harwood can now smile again. it was a dramatic evening after the heavy rain caused a landslide in alima in fairfax. >> these trees came down and mudslide and smashed the carport and pushed all the mud out, and the carport is buried. you can't even see that it was there. and the trees are on top of it somewhere. >> reporter: the wall of mud also took out the stairs leading to the home. that's why ben's daughters and in-laws were trapped inside. >> all of a sudden everybody's freaking out and i didn't quite know why, and i looked outside and it was really weird. >> reporter: one by one, firefighters slowly helped everyone out. first the girls, then the grandmother and finally the grandfather. and medics checked everyone out, and everyone is just fine. and at first, though, medics thought that the grandparents would have to be carried out because of their ages, but they walked out just fine on their own. live in marin county, abc 7 news. >>> everybody's okay. thanks so much, lisa. staying in the north bay, flooding

. >> reporter: ben harwood can now smile again. it was a dramatic evening after the heavy rain caused a landslide in alima in fairfax. >> these trees came down and mudslide and smashed the carport and pushed all the mud out, and the carport is buried. you can't even see that it was there. and the trees are on top of it somewhere. >> reporter: the wall of mud also took out the stairs leading to the home. that's why ben's daughters and in-laws were trapped inside. >> all of a sudden everybody's freaking out and i didn't quite know why, and i looked outside and it was really weird. >> reporter: one by one, firefighters slowly helped everyone out. first the girls, then the grandmother and finally the grandfather. and medics checked everyone out, and everyone is just fine. and at first, though, medics thought that the grandparents would have to be carried out because of their ages, but they walked out just fine on their own. live in marin county, abc 7 news. >>> everybody's okay. thanks so much, lisa. staying in the north bay, flooding

. >> reporter: the water logged mud slide knocked out the stairs to ben harwood's inlaw's house trapping him and the daughters inside. the force of the slide pushed this toyota out of the carport and pactly into traffic on sir francis drake. that is when marin county fire got to work picking their way over trees, mud, carport, and live wires to pull everyone out and the reunion of parents and kid is not to be missed this is four-year-old juliet who mom and dad call jelly bean. up next, ten-year-old emy who didn't realize she was trapped up 68 steps. >> everybody is freaking out. i didn't quite know why. and then i looked outside and it was really weird. >> reporter: in fairfax, andria borba, kpix5. >>> the commute tonight was a mess to say the least. especially if you had to take bart. tonight, the trains are up and running again. after a similar wide melt down earlier. a train hit a tree that fell on the tracks near the balboa bart station. train service had to be shut down between the 24th and daly city station for four hours. this is a look at the chaos. commuters crowding onto the pl

. >> reporter: ben harwood can finally smile again now that both of his daughters are safely in his arms, a heavy rain caused a landslide on sir francis drake boulevard. >> these trees came down in mudslide and smashed the carport and pushed all the mud out and the carport is buried. you can't even see that it was there. and the trees are on top of it somewhere. >> reporter: the wall of mud also took out the stairs leading to the home. that's why ben's daughters and in-laws were trapped inside. >> suddenly, everybody's freaking out and i didn't know why and i looked outside and it was really weird. was really weird. >> reporter: one by one, firefighters slowly helped everyone out. >> keep tabs on the latest storms with live doppler 7. download the app 7 news a.m. and be sure to enable push alerts to get weather advisories sent straight to your phone or tablet. >>> let's talk about what is going on in san francisco during the overnight. i was -- look at that. somebody's taking a little ride right there. trash can got blown over and swept up in that storm. couple of thunderstorms as we tal

ben jealous, former president and ceo of the naacp and cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood, political writer for the "new york times." john, you've covered this town for a bit. how is this going to go from the governing stand point and who is going to be running the show? >> well, first of all, we don't know even who donald trump is, what his interests are, how interested he is going to be in governing the country we would assume that reince priebus, his chief of staff is pretty interested, but a i've encountered a widespread assumption that mike pence, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan are going to be running the parts of the country that involve legislation but i think there's a lot we don't know and there's a tremendous amount of appointments that have not been made and so we don't know who those people are going to be. >> and we're seeing we had this executive order on the affordable care act which i think if you were watching was a little confusing, we were digesting an executive order in realtime which always makes amazing television. >> it was great. >> thank you very mu

ben jealous, former president and ceo of the naacp and cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood, political writer for the "new york times." john, you've covered this town for a bit. how is this going to go from the governing stand point and who is going to be running the show? >> well, first of all, we don't know given who donald trump is, what his interests are, how interested he is going to be in governing the country we would assume that reince priebus, his chief of staff is pretty interested, but i've encountered a widespread assumption that mike pence, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan are going to be running the parts of the country that involve legislation but i think there's a lot we don't know and there's a tremendous amount of appointments that have not been made and so we don't know who those people are going to be. >> and we're seeing we had this executive order on the affordable care act which i think if you were watching was a little confusing, we were digesting an executive order in realtime which always makes amazing television. >> it was great. >> thank you very muc