there is a fact elite here and a half a mile upstream toward san felipe road. kron4's maureen kelly was in that area today and talked to commuters and businesses affected by the now three day closure. nats two pumps sucked floodwaters from the shoulder of hwy 37.and pumped it into the wetlands just north of that stretch of roadway. by noon they'd made quite a bit of progress.the railroad tracks that were underwater thursday are exposed today. at that time the water only inches deep on the asphalt.instead of feet. this video our quadcopter four gives you an idea of how much rain and bay water covered the area. traffic was diverted at atherton avenue in novato.and you can see the backup which has been clogging up streets in town. i talked to a san rafael resident who was stuck in it.she says it added 25 miinutes to her trip yeah it uprooted my morning. but she's glad her appointment was early in the day.rather than close to commute time. i might have had to cancel my appointment because i won't want to be stuck for an hour because you know it could be the bay clu

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residents on lovers lane and san felipe road were forced to evacuate for the second time. in just two weeks. heavy rainfall is expected to continue through the weekend. the rain first started in the north bay. we know many creeks in the area were already full from the rainfall we received earlier in the week. kron4's dan kerman is live there with more. dan? and in the east bay. there are also problems with flooding. kron 4's chuck clifford is checking on the rising waters in martinez right now. and he'll be back to share with us what he is finding now as antoher storms moves in. we're updating you on a story we first brought you on kron-4 news at 5. witnesses say strong gusts of wind are to blame for a scaffolding collapse.toppling onto a person and trapping him under the structure. this happened on turk and market streets in san francisco less than a hour ago. - in this video sent to us by a viewer.you can see the man being loaded into an ambulance. at this time.we believe he was the only person hurt in the incident. next we are continuing our coverage of the inauguration

the creek was overflowing and some spots of lovers lane and san felipe were costed in waist deep -- were covered in waist deepwater. >> my mother said get up, it is flooded outside and we couldn't believe it. i think there was three feet of water. >> reporter: this woman was taken by bus to the veteran's memorial building in hollister where red cross set up a shelter and a few dozen people have been through the doors. >> if they take care of them. if they need something, we'll accommodate them and that is the way it works. >> reporter: it could take a while before people are allowed back home. the ground is saturated, the water doesn't have anywhere to go. >> once the water goes down, that is when we'll go in and start doing the damage assessments and seeing what the real damage is to the individual homes and just to the infrastructure in general. >> reporter: we have a rainbow over the evacuation area. right now the rescue operation has turned into damage assessment. building officials will be sent out here and they will go home by home and see if any of the homes need to be red tagged.

there are mandatory evacuations for lovers lane and san felipe road. some farm animals are in the process of being rescued now by animal control. this is the same thing that happened wednesday of last week. residents were done cleaning up and airing out homes when today's flood hit at the time the county die clair y declared emergency. the governor's office has not and the locals are not happy. >> we're frustrated that we have not had response from the governor's office, zero response from the state that has been helpful with financial resources and we need somebody to come down, acknowledge there is a problem. we understand there are problems elsewhere in the state but we're a small county that's rural, we have limited resources, we need them to help us as soon as possible. >> reporter: local leaders say there is another spillway that worries them on the east santa clara county side and worry with more rain that spillway will come pouring into southern santa clara county and northern san bernardino county. the residents here on lovers lane, they put t

. >> reporter: at the same time the pacheco creek was flooding at the san felipe road bridge.lunteer neighbors rescued 15 people by boat 30 by truck. >> search-and-rescue did a great job

of right and just a few hours was also flooded hundreds of acres of orchards and vineyards along san felipe they rolled video from a helicopter partnership shows the vehicle plauen through the flood as residents evacuator horses and cattle from farm surrounded and cut off by the water among those who chose not to be evacuated the flood of have been the result of too much rain too fast for. >>steve: saw the best pictures come from viewers the biggest beneficiary a reservoir where many are just overflowing grant l: it is so awful it is spillover the reservoir was drying up there so much water is flooding in some spots but considering what they look like in the past few years niles canyon has been a trouble spot in the main road people use to get to 680 in fremont pretty easy to see why it was closed for much of the day all that mud all over the roadway. grant l: the creek honey's the road washed out part of all home run leading that enormous they pinhole these areas currency or helicopter partnership it could take months until that road is passable again good news and bad news we are getting

. >> brush and debris in this creek caused it to back up near san felipe road, and rush over the road into farmland it rose 20 feet, the highest level since 19 1969. >> the storms didn't impact just people. take a look. this beaver showed up injured and disoriented at joe henderson elementary school this morning. they found it had small wounds on its feet and tail. experts tell us the beaver is dinged up but is expected to be okay. >> the federal agency has declared the drought over in 35% of california. much of the central and southern california areas are in air moderate to severe drought. so could we start to relax in terms of water use? >> laura anthony is looking into that que >> well, the spill way behind me is open for the first time in a long time. while everything looks great, there is more to the story. underground. >> this is what many california reservoirs look like at the height of the drought in the spring of 2015. half empty. this is what many look like today. more than 100% full. so full, the spill way at the san pablo reservoir is wide o n open. >> the amount of water

. >> brush and debris in this creek caused it to back up near san felipe road, and rush over the road into farmland it rose 20 feet, the highest level since 19 1969. >> the storms didn't impact just people. take a look. this beaver showed up injured and disoriented at joe henderson elementary school this morning. they found it had small wounds on its feet and tail. experts tell us the beaver is dinged up but is expected to be okay. >> the federal agency has declared the drought over in 35% of california. much of the central and southern california areas are in air moderate to severe drought. so could we start to relax in terms of water use? >> laura anthony is looking into that question. >> well, the spill way behind me is open for the first time in a long time. while everything looks great, there is more to the story. underground. >> this is what many california reservoirs look like at the height of the drought in the spring of 2015. half empty. this is what many look like today. more than 100% full. so full, the spill way at the san pablo reservoir is wide o n open. >> the amount of

. >> reporter: we are at shore and san felipe, which is where the county office of emergency services set up a command center. the rain stopped falling from the sky, but there is enough still on the ground that the swift water rescue crew is going door to door to 152. these are some of the folks taken out. 29 caress cued. but they are at the still going door to door making sure there is no one else inside. the good news, no one has any injuries. one person has a pre-existing conditions not related to this. we'll update as you we can. >>> and in ben nearby that, i'm bob redell. this city declared a local state of emergency. at one point 11 streets were shut down. this is the industrial part of the city. police had told us at one point, this was three to four feet were deep. the car stuck in the middle of traffic. that stalled as the driver tried to get through this area. there was concern about 1:00 a.m. high tide. >>> check anything with kari. >> still scattered showers but a few more breaks as we go into today. a chance for some to clean up. we will be keeping an eye on the russian r

it affects people live on lovers lane, shore road, in san felipe a road. officials say individual wells may be contaminated with runoff or pesticides. boiling water won't help. people are being advised to only drink bottled water and use bottled water for cooking, washing close, or making ice. you can download our free kutv weather app for the very latest.>>> new at 10, san jose has reached an agreement with the san jose police officers association among new new -- on a new contract. it involves a crease is over -- pay increases over the next two years. the contract will be presented to the members of the police union for ratification and brought to the council for final adoption sometime in february. if approved, the agreement would be retroactive to january one.>>> emotions ran high tonight at a town hall meeting in the ocean view neighborhood that brought together police and members of the community. they were discussing a police shooting last week. rob malcolm was at the meeting. family say in their opinion, police did not need to open fire.>> reporter

it's closed here, and also closed at san felipe area. i don't know how big of a commuter route this is. i know this pass here is used widely. this particular section is close to holister. the chp did have this area closed, because they wanted to minimize the amount of traffic around here. let me try to find out a little more information. were you trapped in your home? it looks like some of these people don't want to talk. we'll try to get some more information about the road closures. oh, you are going to talk. >> yeah. >> reporter: okay 0. what happened? >> we were in in a house that wasn't really that flooded, but it got to our stairs, and yeah, it was bad. >> reporter: you're smiling, but scary at all? >> we never experienced this, it's like our first time. >> reporter: okay. thanks so much for talking to us. so we'll try to get a little more information. the firefighters here are busy gathering info, and we'll try to get more in the next hour for you. >> water up to the stairs, so it's coming towards those homes pep we'll check in wi

. >> reporter: at the same time the pacheco creek was flooding at the san felipe road bridge. hollister fire and volunteer neighbors rescued 15 people by boat 30 by truck. >> search-and-rescue did a great job of notifying people but they didn't have time. they didn't know what was coming. >> reporter: it flooded hundreds of acres of farmland stranding livestock and ravaged homes. matt says the current was too strong to even stand up in. his home was flooded by two feet of water. today the floors are drying out and the dirty job of cleaning out inches of river muck from all corners of the rooms is just getting started. >> the floodplain ends right in the middle of my little chunk there so it's not required for me to have flood insurance so i don't because it's very expensive and so i gambled and i lost this time. so we'll see what happens. >> reporter: there's been a lot of talk about levees. ranchers used to be able to bury their old farm vehicles in the levees themselves to add stability and weight to the levees but environmental services people years ago stopped them from do

operation smile. [ music ] hundreds of children and their parents have arrived at tegucigalpa's san felipe hospital hoping for surgery. over the next two days, this dedicated team of international volunteers will examine every girl and boy, but tragically, at least half of them will have to be turned away because there isn't enough time to operate on all of them. [ music ] jose's only 3, too young to understand the stares and taunts directed at him by others. but his mother, reina, knows how he'll suffer if he doesn't get surgery. she, herself, lived with a cleft lip until the age of 12. >> reina: all the children made fun of me. i couldn't bear to leave the house. they called me spit lip, broken lip and all kinds of things. >> roma downey: reina finally received her surgery, but when her son was born with a cleft, she felt the nightmare was beginning all over again. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reina: i was worried. everyone said he would not grow and that it would be a miracle if he lived. he suffered because he couldn't eat and even had trouble with the bottle. >> roma downey: to

same area flooded last week because of another levee break when debris backed up at the bridge at san felipe road. >>> there was a scare for homeowners in los gatos. mud and trees gave way on a hillside on beardsley road and slammed into a propane tank causing a leak. authorities evacuated two near boy homes as they worked to cap the leak. >>> another mudslide knocked down trees and toppled power lines in the hills above los gatos. it happened here black road -- along black road near gist road around noon. pg&e crews moved in to deenergize and remove the damaged power lines. firefighters say there's a high risk of mudslides right now because the ground is so saturated. >> you can keep track of the latest storms with live doppler 7 on the abc 7 news app. enable push alerts so you can get advisories sent to your phone or tablet. >>> and sandhya is checking our weather. >> coming up, coverage of the inauguration continues. they're off now. what's next for president obama and the social media turnover that took place as the inauguration was under way. >>> plus today's protests may be small compa

hollister, until about 4:15 this afternoon, localized flooding spilling away from the creek, affecting san felipefrazier lake, and also flood advisories, central sonoma county, greaten, and mark west. those locations through 8:00 tonight seeing localized flooding come off the smaller creeks and streams. san francisco, passing showers. across marin county, 53 degrees. san jose had intense thunder within the last hour or so. those showers now moving into hamilton where it's cold enough. you're seeing snow showers now down to 4,000 feet. so as we move the picture up to the north bay, you see mainly moderate rain right now, but offshore, a very active pattern. all these blotchy clouds offshore, those are intense showers that could drop hail and more thunder. i you can see some of the lightning bolts offshore. here's the sunday storm system which could bring the most rain and the most wind and a series of three storms. the hour-by-hour timeline of the impact on the weekend in about ten minutes. >> big weekend ahead. we look forward to that. >> some potentially dangerous conditions along the coast. thi

that's also flooded hundreds of acres of orchards and vineyards along san felipe a road. >>> make surewith it changing, you want to be able to get that information. news, weather, and traffic on the go. >>> still had, police in the east bay looking for two people who robbed a teenager at gunpoint. we will tell you exactly what happened and donald trump slamming reports about information presented to him at a recent intelligence briefing. details on why he is calling it fake news. >>> and we have the latest route numbers as well coming out. looks like these storms have made somewhat of a difference. will break them down coming up in a minute. çááádaryaáááÑ in the weather center with rebecca... çááárebeccaáááÑ >>> take a look at storm tracker 4. it's like being all dressed up with no place to go. >> looks like the heaviest band is moving out. tracking moisture offshore that may turn into green. >> are you complaining? >> this looks done to me. >> close to done. >> the latest models with future cast seem to get a dryer and dryer earlier and earlier in the day. this is what we are tracking