leon walker came out to survey damage. gingerly walking over uncertain ground giving a two-word assessment. >> much worse. >> the ground behind the house and the scott house, next door, had slumped away. barbara scott knew the hillside could be trouble. >> there was hill crest, first, open up in 86. the whole road. >> she and her husband moved in, in 1972. >> my husband put in an extra strong retaining wall. and with drainage. everything we thought we did to secure the home. >> the wall slid down last night. >> i don't know if i have a foundation anymore. the foundation was that retaining wall. that was my security. >> the scott house and walker house next door have suffered

leon walker came out to survey damage. gingerly walking over uncertain ground giving a two-word assessment. >> much worse. >> the ground behind the house and the scott house, next door, had slumped away. barbara scott knew the hillside could be trouble. >> there was hill crest, first, open up in 86. the whole road. >> she and her husband moved in, in 1972. >> my husband put in an extra strong retaining wall. and with drainage. everything we thought we did to secure the home. >> the wall slid down last night. >> i don't know if i have a foundation anymore. the foundation was that retaining wall. that was my security. >> the scott house and walker house next door have suffered worst of it. down below there are three more homes on hill crest imperiled from mudsliding in. >> all of this from here to this section here, was upright. >> peter hewitt is surveying the damage to his mother's backyard. >> he said he has to get involved at this point. they are to. >> residents were called to a meeting this afternoon. we were allowed i

que han sufrido no solo las viviendas en el patio trasero de esta casa empezo a venirse abajo, leon walkerivía aquí. leon descubrieron lo ocurrido, las pequeñas estaban en el segundo piso. la estructura seguia siendo afectada. planean pasar la noche en otro lado, están conmocionados. el dueño ya contacto la compañia de seguro. los daños se consideran efecto de una inundacion, el seguro no lo cubre son varias las viviendas afectadas. nunca había visto algo asi. mientras tanto en la parte de abajo de la colina la tierra se les vino encima, con esfuerzo trataban de reparar. el deslave provoco daños. están viendo la posibilidade de dar prestamos a los afectados. algunos residentes no dormiran en sus casa esta noche, se esperan mas lluvias. regresamos a los estudios ayer en la tarde los moradores de trailers fueron evacuados porque las lluvias sufrieron daños en los cimientos. varios locales sufrieron daños un niño de 5 años y una mujer de 35 murieron en la carretera, el desastre ocurrio a la altura del dinsaur road, en el auto viajaban el pequeño y su tia, la madre del niño esta en condicion c

. >> reporter: this morning, leon walker took steps to ensure the ground could soak up something other than the rain. beforehand, an east bay m.u.d. employee showed him and his wife a map of their area after he turned off their water. the utility wasn't the only visitor to the property today. the contra costa county assessors office sent two appraisers out. the assessors office can only survey the damage. it's up to engineers to determine whether the home can be saved. home owner leon walker says this doesn't just affect his family anymore. >> this is just the flashpoint of something that is a little bit bigger. no telling what's going to happen. this entire hillside is compromised, not just behind my house. the entire hillside. >> reporter: the back steps. walkers' home are suspended in the air. it seems that the walkers are paying the price for what used to be a scenic view of the 80. the assistant city manager updated us several times this morning about the situation which left homes tagged by the city and the city declaring a local, state of emergency. >> we'll also be going out an

but leon walker new chances of help were slim. i asked the mayor what could the walkers expect? they owe twice what the home is worth, before the slide. >> is there anyway out for them? >> if it was me looking at it, personally, and it was my house, boy say no. >> you'd walk away? >> boy walk away. >> discouraging. and the city has taken the lead in contacting a soils engineer but the city assistant manager made it clear cost that have soils engineer and any repairs will be shared by the now-seven properties expected -- affected. one parcel is owned by the city of san pablo. >> thank you. >> and we have breaking news in the east bay. workers repairing a large water main that broke during a landslide that left 160 homes without clean drinking water in parts of pleasanton. >> and this is a live view of the damage on the pleasanton ridge. repairs expected to extend into the weekend. daniel smith is with the city of pleasanton is is live with us tonight. are you there? >> yes. i'm here. >> how big of a challenge is this going to be to fix given saturation in the soil? is that just c

. >> the clock was ticking for leon walker who had to get his belongings out of his home on wyman street him a hand as a landslide slowly ate the backyard of his home that he and his wife bought seven years ago. >> it's just sad, going down the hill and there is no way for me to stop it. you lose a house in one day. >> the view from sky 7 shows the hillside sagging from the top of wyman street down to hillcrest road. three homes on top or in jeopardy. mud and trees are creeping toward the givens house, the family that lived there 43 years is moving out. >> biggest concern is those right there. it will be a direct hit. my aunt and uncle told them to move. that is what we're doing now. >> a former neighbor showed this photo of the home that was next to the walker's house that collapsed back in the mid '70s. >> the houses probably shouldn't have put there. if they slide down once, you don't take measures it's going to slide down again. >> they have hired engineers to inspect the land. >> we're looking at all the work that has been done in that th area. >> they have promised to inspect homes

. >> the clock was ticking for leon walker that had to get his belongings out of his home.ends gave him a hand as a landslide slowly ate away the back yard of his home that he and his wife bought seven years ago. >> it's going down the hill and no way for me to stop it. >> the view from sky 7 shows the hillside sagging from the top of wyman street down to hillcrest road. three homes are in jeopardy along with another three on the bottom. mud and trees are creeping toward the house. the family is moving out. >> our biggest concerns are those trees right there. it would be a direct hit. >> landslides are nothing new around hillcrest. a photo of a home that was next to the backer's home which collapsed back in the mid '70s. >> i think the houses shouldn't have been put there. if they slide down once and you don't take measures it's going to slide down again. >> they have hired engineers to inspect the land. >> we are looking at records. >> they are promising to inspect the homes on regular intervals and pursue an emergency declaration that could lead to disaster money for the

leon walker, his wife and two kids have lived here for seven years and they are still in this home at this point. this city said it is safe for them to stay here. the problem is they don't know if they want to. >> i'm still in shock. i thank god that my kids were out here, nothing happened to them and were all safe. i have no worries. i'm actually devastated. i don't know for people to stay. >>kate: this is his two daughters playground, you could see the ground completely gone from underneath one side of it. the playground now leaning forward. the concern for the family now is with more rain on the way, is this already terrible problem going to get even worse. reporting live, the kate thompson kron 4 news. >>pam: not the only area dealing with storm problems. people insulting breathing a sigh of relief dodging the bullet from when the river jumped its banks. look at how the water is rushing by. a very precarious situation there. if robbed shows us the river nile and the return home of those were forced to flee the rising waters. >>rob: here and felt and grove, the river is now well wi

. >> leon walker says you can draw a straight line from the old slide to his backyard. >> we are directly in front of it. if that fell 50 feet, then they didn't properly sink it. >> six homes are affected, but three homeowners say they are not affected. companies are now shifting the responsibility. >> they look for any way not to pay. so if they can say that house is causing the trickle down theory here, then we got to go after them. >> now back out live, it's a bit unnerving to stand here because you can literally hear the popping. i don't know if it is structures or trees. i can tell you that the city of san pablo owns a vacant property directly next door to where i stand. the city says it is prepared to split the cost of the soil. the city is contacting governor brown's office, hoping he will declare a state of emergency and they believe that will help free up some emergency funds. meanwhile, building inspectors are scheduled to stop by all six of these properties over the next 6 to 12 hours throughout the weekend. they are trying to determine if these homes will remain habitable or i

. >> leon walker says you can draw a straight line. >> we are directly in front of it. if that fell 50 feet, then they didn't properly sink that. >> six homes are affected, but three of the homeowners say there is no insurance, but companies are now shifting the responsibility. >> they look for any way not to pay. so if they can say that house is causing the triple down theory here, then we have to go after them. >> now the city of san pablo owns a vacant property directly next door to where i stand. they say they are now prepared to split the cost of a soiled engineer. they also say they are contacting governor brown's office, hoping that he'll declare a state of emergency. that may free up more money. meanwhile, a building inspector is supposed to visit all six of these properties in the next 6 to 12 hours and continue through the weekend to determine if these properties will be inhabitable. if not, they will red tag these homes and dana, that brings up a bigger issue. the insurance companies are not covering their damages. so they say without that money, if they are

. >> leon walker and his family are living at a hotel after his house was yellow taged on this rain ravaged hillside above san pablo road. he joined five other homeowners including the city manager to figure out what is next. >> the repairs were estimated at about five million across the repair. that's beyond the capabilities of the city of san pablo. so we are reaching out for state and federal assistance. >> i understand it is beurocracy and it is government and things move slowly. we are dealing with lives and people's homes. it is devastating and disappointing we can't get more answers more quickly. >> she is still in her home, but her insurance company won't help because they say it is flood related. entire backyards here disappeared. decks and steps hang eerily suspended in midair following the heavy march rains. >> it is not going to do anything in my house. we will be down the hill by the time they fix it. >> on thursday the city hopes to put $6,000 in a special account. >> we can donate at any bank branch. >> tomorrow the city council will hold a special public meeting to go over t

leon walker is watching his backyard go from this to this. it's slowly slipping away after last week's san pablo hills landslide. >> i can't get any equipment out here to shore this up. but if i do, that's still there. so it would be moot for me to do anything to this. if they don't address that. or the problem that they didn't address in '75. >> reporter: walker showed us these photos from 1975. you see the debris left behind from a home that slid down the hill during a landslide them. walker says he didn't know about the landslide threat before moving in. san pablo city officials are declaring a state of emergency on yellow-tagged homes on wyman and hillcrest streets. the cleanup is going to cost thousands of dollars. money the city says it doesn't have. >> i don't know what the costs of this repair could be, but the reserves that we do have, if we try to use those to fix this repair would most likely threaten the future of the city going forward. >> reporter: a small santa cruz city is experiencing a similar problem. the question for capit

four days after the hillside beneath leon walker's house collapsed swallowing his backyard, the future is just as unstable as the ground under him. >> devastated by it. >> reporter: the porch juts out over empty space. he believes at any moment the home will tumble downhill. >> this is just the flashpoint of what's wrong with this hill. the entire hillside is compromised. >> reporter: walkers' wife says these before and after pictures prove it that there were two other mud slides below their home in 1975 and again in '83. and that the city of san pablo did a poor patchup job to try to fix it. >> it's the same condition now. all they did just put a band- aid on it pretty much. they didn't fix the problem. >> i wouldn't have bought this place if it was this close slid down the hill... i would have took a pass on it. >> reporter: the city of san pablo is busy clearing trees, feld during the slide, and working on getting disaster funds for residents but they are not saying whether the disaster was due shoddy work after the first slide. >> on many fronts looking at documents and you know, a

leon walker owned one of the homes yellow tagged yesterday. >> they're going to have to shore up the entire hillside. >> reporter: this afternoon, flanked by other residents he insisted the city and county should have expected this crisis. given what happened here about 30 years ago. >> that was prefabbed because it slid down the bill. if i had that disclosed to me at the time i would have never bought this house. >> there was a pretty massive slide back then, we're reviewing the records and getting familiar with those issues as well. >> reporter: researchers are digging up old records to analyze whether the past is influencing this crisis. they'll share reports with owners this week. >>> this a threat from falling trees neutralized, san pablo officials are focusing on logistics, like how the city and citizens will pay for the damage. >> what we hear is that the insurance is not covering this. what the city has done as of today, declared a local emergency that will send off to contra costa county. we will contact them tomorrow and they will forward that on to the state. >>> the city

. >> reporter: we're in leon walker's backyard. he and neighbors are putting down a black tarp.started to rain again here, that caused this backyard to slip down the hill.

. >> one week ago, leon walker thought he's living on solid ground, that they'd retire in this house. and at the base of the hill sandra felt secure, too. now look at her backyard. >> my husband is hopeful that everything will work out. >> people living in them have no more hope now than last week, when problems began. the assistant city manager did make an appearance, but offered little that might april ease residents. >> we are doing an assessment with soil engineer that will be the determination of whether or not this can be repaired. if it can, start looking at solutions. >> the city is doing what it can today, we told but an account it's stishing. we'll have more details at mechanics bank if people want to donate money that is where they can go z this afternoon, the city declared an emergency in terms of the sliding hillside with emergency allows them to do is persue federal, and state funds to give people who live here relieve. and there is a meeting wednesday night for the residents. >> businesses are cleaning up after a second wall of water hit the city this weekend. flooding

leon walker left his house tonight at dusk. the yellow tag ordering his family out, capping an emotional day as friends helped the couple and their two kids move. their home isn't safe anymore, being sucked by a landslide moving in feet, not inches. >> if it was just rain then they would have happened out there. >> reporter: walker wonders why here? especially now that he has seen photos from years ago when the house next door slid away due to an underground spring and the street below his collapsed and was rebuilt. >> supposedly they shot rods up and then into this hill. they shot concrete toward that way. >> reporter: the two homes on the edge in this picture are now the two on the bottom end of the landslide. both yellow tagged today as well. giving owners time to move before it gets worse. yards they could walk through yesterday are impassable now and teetering trees could crash down any time. the gibons remember years ago when the earth last moved. >> all of it is connected. no way it's not. no way it's not. >> i don't thi

. >> the clock was tick being for leon walker, who had to get his belongs out of his home on wyman street. people from his church gave him a hand as a landslide eight way way the pack of his home that he and his wife bought seven years ago. >> i'm just sad that my house, our only house we ever had is just going down the hill and there's no way to stop it, save it, nothing. you lose a house in one day. >> the view from sky seven shows the heliside sagging from the top of wyman street down to hillcrest road. three holmes on the top are in jeopardy, along with another three on the bottom. the mud and trees are creeping toward their house. the family that lived there for 43 years is moving out. >> our biggest concern is those trees right there. you know, they are in line with our house and it will be a direct hit. helping my aunt and uncle move and that's what we are doing right now. >> landslides are nothing new around hillcrest. a former neighbor showed us this photo of a home next to the walker's house which collapsed back in the mid-'70s. >> i think the house probably shouldn't have been

. >> the clock was tick being for leon walker, who had to get his belongs out of his home on wyman street. people from his church gave him a hand as a landslide eight way way the pack of his home that he and his wife bought seven years ago. >> i'm just sad that my house, our only house we ever had is just going down the hill and there's no way to stop it, save it, nothing. you lose a house in one day. >> the view from sky seven shows the hill side sagging from the top of wyman street down to hillcrest road. three holmes on the top are in jeopardy, along with another three on the bottom. the mud and trees are creeping toward their house. the family that lived there for 43 years is moving out. >> our biggest concern is those trees right there. you know, they are in line with our house and it will be a direct hit. helping my aunt and uncle move and that's what we are doing right now. >> landslides are nothing new around hillcrest. a former neighbor showed us this photo of a home next to the walker's house which collapsed back in the mid-'70s. >> i think the house probably shouldn't have been

leon walker owns this home, the home that suffered a lot of damage to the backyard. something all the neighbors are concerned about. i understand you talked to your neighbors directly below you, what did they tell you? >> they just informed me that there's a natural spring that is behind this home here. and several years ago, that house wasn't there, and the house that was there prior lived. >> so you're learning something about the history of this hillside. you think that natural spring could be the source of your problems and then if that's the case, what do you do about it? >> at this point, i'm hoping that the mayor of the city would advise the governor and declare this a natural disaster, and then have fema come and help them rebuild this hill. because this entire hill has been compromised. >> the city said in the past this is private property, the homeowners have to take care of it. why do you disagree with that? >> because they own a lot that's adjacent to the track. >> the city owns? >> the city. >> this is a neighborhood wide problem? >> that's correct. >> l

four days after the hillside beneath leon walker's house collapsed swallowing his backyard, the future remains just as unstable as the ground beneath him. >> i'm devastated by it. >> reporter: the porch that used to lead to walker's backyard now justice out over empty space. and walker believes that any moment the home his family has lived in for seven years will tumble down the hill. >> this is just the flash point of what's wrong with this hill. the entire hillside is compromised. >> reporter: walker's wife says these before and after pictures prove it, that there were two other mudslides below their home in 1975 and again in '83. and that the city did a poor patch-up job to try to fix it. >> it's the same situation now. oh, my god. >> all they did is just put a bandaid on it pretty much. they didn't fix the problem. >> no, i would have never bought this place if it was dissclosed to me that that house right there slid down the hill. i would have took a pass on that. >> reporter: the city of san pablo is busy clearing trees that fell during the slide and working on getting disaster f

leon walker whose home suffered the worst damage hasn't moved everything, even the kitchen cabinets out for the sliding hillside. >> they don't address the hell, but in shoring up my house been it's still moving. >>kate: 10 years and city and county officials up and inspecting the hillside since a landslide began on thursday. residents hope to learn more about their findings, but the most interested in it is a report to in the soil into near about the stability of the hillside. barbara scott said so far she's been told her house is safe but she will have to tear down her 30 ft. deck. >> it will have to be destroyed, the now lost about three of the flooding sundanese the deck. it's moving. >>kate: neighbors are currently inside barbara's house right next to the home where were standing on. you could see here with the land has eroded away. this fence that separates their home is going straight down the hill and like she said, her deck has been red tagged it will have to be destroyed. it neighbor's gathering today, one of the other options if they are considering is getting a lawyer to go

>>kate: right now i'm watching leon walker who owns this home.dark jacket. all of his friends are trying to target his entire backyard. he could see the massive amounts of plastic that they're laying down trying to cover all of the problem that has been damaged and sliding downhill. they're letting the top down to try and protect the land from any more water saturation. he lives here with his wife and two children. last night they decided it wasn't safe enough and they send their children away for the evening. the question is, how safe is the properties to stay in. the city said it is safe and that they can stay here. but the walkers and the other neighbors who suffered severe damage are both thinking that they're going to leave the properties tonight and not sleep here. >> i does can't believe that. i literally cannot believe the difference even from yesterday which was bad enough. to hear it all night, i could not sleep. to hear rumbling. you could hear the earth falling. i opened the door and i came out and it was looking over the and and i ha