jean marie white showed us these photos where they tried to recover furniture and other items from all the murky water, this is from the downtown san jose area right next to coyote creek. >>> the flooding caused chaos throughout the rock springs neighborhood today. some made it out on their own while others had to be rescued. some people were taken by boat, others chose to wade through the water. one elderly woman even rode piggy back on a firefighter. the man who moved quickly to get his car to safety couldn't get back in time to reach his wife and child. >> where are they now? >> yeah, they're trying to get out. >> so they need to be rescued? >> yeah. >> reporter: those who were moved to safety had to be decontaminated in the middle of the street, the city was worried about hazardous materials, everybody just wanted their belongings. >> i had a lot of clothes from the winter that i had to storage, i had a lot of shoes, my baby's toys, all of his stuff down there. >> reporter: one homeowner has seen floods before but never anything like this as water reached his roof. >> we were not s

jean marie white showed us these photos where they tried to recover furniture and other items from all the murky water, this is from the downtown san jose area right next to coyote creek. >>> the flooding caused chaos throughout the rock springs neighborhood today. some made it out on their own while others had to be rescued. some people were taken by boat, others chose to wade through the water. one elderly woman even rode piggy back on a firefighter. the man who moved quickly to get his car to safety couldn't get back in time to reach his wife and child. >> where are they now? >> yeah, they're trying to get out. >> so they need to be rescued? >> yeah. >> reporter: those who were moved to safety had to be decontaminated in the middle of the street, the city was worried about hazardous materials, everybody just wanted their belongings. >> i had a lot of clothes from the winter that i had to storage, i had a lot of shoes, my baby's toys, all of his stuff down there. >> reporter: one homeowner has seen floods before but never anything like this as water reached his roof. >> we were not s

jean marie white taking this photo outside of a home on 16th street. we want to see your pictures and videos, tag us on twitter are instagram or post it to our facebook page. we'll have more of your photos in 25 minutes. >>> janelle wang has been on the air all day long tracking the flooding evacuations. what is the source of the problem? >> anderson reservoir hit capacity over the weekend and all of this water is the overflow, uncontrolled water spilling into coyote creek. we want to show you a map of where it's located. right here, all of that water flowing into coyote creek which runs up northbound 101 through san jose and it dumps out in the bay near milpitas. some of the trouble spots, northbound 101, northbound lanes shut down. robert handa will have more on that? a few minutes. this is the major trouble spot, happy hollow zoo. center and faye len is located right near the zoo right here. firefighters responded here quickly this morning. flood waters inundated the neighborhood in minutes. submerging homes and cars. firefighters used boats to resc

jean marie white shared these photos with us. her family tried to recover furniture and other items that they could from the murky water. this house is in the negley park neighborhood in downtown san jose right next to coyote creek. >>> sky7 shows these horses still in their stalls, also flooded with water. and a lot of you were concerned about what happened to these horses. firefighters tell us the property owners opened the stall gates and let the horses run up to higher ground. >> if you would like to help the victims, you can easily donate to are red cross, just take out your phone, text the words red cross to 90999 to make a $10 donation that will show up in your phone bill. we have all the resources and information you need to know about the evacuation centers, what to do with your pets and so on. just head to abc7news.com. you can also find it on the abc7 news app. >>> the next time you turn on the tap, there could be a change. what is soon going to be added to san francisco's drinking water. >>> and back live now in san j

jean marie white shared this photo with us. white's family tried to recover furniture and other items. this is in nagly park area in san jose. sky7 shows these horses still in their stalls also flooded with water. a lot of you were concerned about them. firefighters tell us the property owners opened the stall gates and let the horses run to higher ground. >>> if you would like to help the victims, you can easily donate to red cross by texting the words "red cross" to 90999 to make a $10 donation. it will show up in your phone bill. we have all the resources and info you need about the evacuation centers, what to do with your animals, pets and more on how to donate. go to abc7news.com. you can also find all the info on our abc7 news app. >>> let's take a look at live doppler 7. all around the area that's flooding, no rain, no more water rolling into anderson lake or anderson reservoir and spillig over, at least no additional and you can see it's pretty quiet everywhere this morning. in fact, drove on a lot of dryness this morni