thomas moriarty, seen here during a recent operation, performed surgery on the gun shot wounds to erica's head. these were cat scans of her skull and brain, preop. >> part of the bullets and broken bone. >> the mission was to clean the fragments from erica's head, repair the wounds and preserve brain function, if possible. erica was lucky in one way. the angle of the bullet wasn't straight through the brain, but downward, exiting under her chin. >> what a blessing as opposed to the bullet damaging everything. >> and dr. moriarty was relieved that the bullet only struck the brain's frontal lobe. >> less than 3 years old, the brain's ability the repair is truly remarkable. >> after the delicate three and a half hour surgery, dr. moriarty was encouraged by comparison scans of erica's brain. the bullet and the bone fragment in the preop image were gone. but despite the repair, brian injuries are unpredictable and dr. moriarty urged caution. >> the next few days will be critical. >> at the crime seen, detective arnold continued to sift through clues. more leads came into focus. a bloody footpr

moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> the first major rainstorm has led to evacuations in southern california. thousands of people who live in some of the areas destroyed by lass month's thomas fire have been told to pack up and leave because of danger of flooding and mudslides. evacuation orders were issued today for parts of ventura, l.a., and santa barbara counties. sandbags are in high demand and impossible to find in some areas. >> i called around and called the fire departments and earlier they didn't have any. i heard they ran out, i came up here this morning and there wasn't any. >> the mandatory evacuation order now affects some 21,000 people and that cub could grow as the rank continues overnight in to tomorrow. >>> we're getting our share of rain around here. coming down good and it's exactly what we need right now, the very dry december. a record dry december. now it's taking up some totals, two inches of rain in san francisco, we talked about that. and still raining hard outside. we're going in to the morning hours with some heavy rain. there's the radar and west coast is inundated from san diego to ensenada. morgan hill, watsonville, they picked up an inch of r