wilson walker near the russian river, thank you. >> this area is no stranger to flooding. back in 1968 the devastation, if you could believe it, was worse. we found this footage. you can see the flooded home behind our reporter there. in 1973 these residents stopped in their tracks before heading in to the floodwaters. back then the river reached almost 50 feet. >>> not just areas near the russian river that are flooding tonight. neighbors are submerged after so much heavy rain and we have drone video that actually captures signs along highway 12, buildings, several feet under water. the only way to get around really is by boat. kpix 5's susie steimle with the rescue efforts underway to get residents out. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations have been going on for the past cuch of hours. the fire department is evacuating people from this area. normally this connects to santa rosa and the 101. >> there is somebody trapped in their house. >> reporter: the fire department is rescuing the stubborn. >> they don't want to leave. they don't want to leave. >> reporter: 15 people hav

we have team coverage on this flight emergency and begin with wilson walker near flooded guerneville. >> reporter: the town of guerneville almost entirely underwater, but it does not stop there. the western and of sonoma county has been hard-hit by flooding just about everywhere you go you will run into some type of effect of the disaster. it is hard to escape it. the view from chopper 5 shows the devastation in guerneville, roads or rivers in the only mode of transportation is by boat, take a look at the intersection with a dead-end, the river so high two of the roadways lead to more water. >> the current situation is people are getting helped, evacuation time is past, we cannot evacuate more people because the water has risen and the roads are impassable. to these people do not evacuate, we spotted them at a rooftop, one woman sitting in a launcher, we caught up with a couple with a couple that did get out. >> these are fast-changing, you have to pay attention. >> this is the third time we have been evacuate over three or four months. that is life. >> reporter: the force of the wate

kpix 5 reporter wilson walker is live. wilson? >> reporter: we are once again standing on a deserted westbound side of 580. no traffic. one lane over there. we got an update from the highway patrol as to what they are dealing with. that is essentially an opening situation. the upper level, the bridge, they don't know when they're going to be able to open traffic westbound again. here is the highway patrol. >> we are filtering all the traffic down to one lane to get them across the bridge. for the time being, it is one eastbound lane. re continuing tdo pr inspections to find out what is going on. >> reporter: clearly, with the closure this direction. let's go back to earlier today when pieces of the bridge started falling off. you had the first closure. obviously, a tremendous around amount of traffic to bring to a halt sort of on-the-fly. here is how it unfolded in the first couple of hours. >> i drove on, traffic just stopped. >> just as soon as the concrete started falling, the bridge was frozen. >> we have in here about 45 minu

that is the side of the bridge were refined kpix 5's wilson walker tonight. wilson? >> reporter: for the second time today, the westbound into this bridge, completely deserted. take a look. someone was just asking me how fast is eastbound traffic moving. you can see for yourself. it is crawling along with one lane open. if you keep going west from here, you ready to marin county where streets pretty much far and wide are entirely snarled by the backwash of this delay. the highway patrol came to a little earlier. we were asking them about how you manage this when you have essentially a traffic problem which is spreading out across really the region here. this is what he had to say about the problem they are faced with this evening. >> again, that is a big issue. having to move different points on highway 101 throughout the city of san rafael. there's a lot going on. we are going to keep pushing out to everybody, whether it is your traditional media, social media, whatever the case may be. avoiding the area and finding an alternate route if you can. >> reporter: there

kpix 5's wilson walker tells us neighbors are at odds with the respected charity. >> reporter: it is an example of just how in demand any space can be in san francisco these days. a disagreement over the best use for the strip of green along interstate 280. the san francisco marin food bank right nearby needs more space specifically in regard to truck access and parking. for several years they had the lease of the straw strip of, small strip of green beloved by many dogpatch neighbors. the green would be lost for parking. the food bank says it needs the room. neighbors say they need the green space . >> really our goal is to ensure that more people who need basic food support get it. that property is critical to our ability to reach more people. >> i think this is just a reminder we have these reminders all the time that we need to be very thoughtful about how we use the space that's left. >> reporter: for now the space belongs to the food bank. they have the lease on the land. neighbors are still trying to change their mind. they will hold a community meeting on this topic on februa

kpix 5's wilson walker shows us today's during operation. >> reporter: for some in this neighborhood,happened a long time ago. for others, this is something that is out right illegal. either way, this is the day that one of the largest homeless encampments on lake merrick will come down. >> today the city is here to be another cruel and inhumane eviction of a shelter people who literally have nowhere to go. >> reporter: the kind of action at least homeless advocates outrage, crews from the city of oakland moving tents, clothing, propane tanks, and more bicycle than anyone could begin to count. this camp has been here for a while. a lot of neighbors say it's removal is long overdue. >> i can tell you, everyone that lives in this neighborhood has a complete different -- we all have dogs and walk. anyone who deals with this, they couldn't be happier. >> we got some thank you's. people are compassionate and concerned about our and sheltered, as are we. they also wanted to see some standards. >> reporter: the city of oakland recently won a court battle over exactly this kind of encampment

wilson walker, kpix 5. >>>'s strong winds spent trees all over the bay area since drivers avoided the area so public works crews could clear it. crews in san francisco have their hands full cutting up this tree in the mission district. the tree smashed a car on dolores street. it crashed the windshield and broke through the summer. >>> with more rain coming, we can see more of this. slides on steep hills. this what happened when he they marin county home in belvedere. a portion of beach road was forced to close. >>> now a look outside at commissions for commuters. drivers getting a break of heavy rain. it is slow going on those roads especially on 880 in oakland. also slow going heading out of the city if you are trying to get on the bay bridge. lots of red on the map. there is also a high wind warning crossing the bridge. he both hands on the steering will introduce space. 580 westbound also slow at this hour. >>> the latest on bringing in some tough driving conditions in the sierra. this car got stuck alo

wilson walker is reporting live. thank you. we invite you to stay with us for the latest on the storm. the kpix 5 morning news will start early tomorrow going off at 4 am. we will be tracking the storms and will be navigating the wet and windy commute and we will have updates always on kpix.com. >>> governor newsom has some surprises in his speech. he wants to scale back on the high-speed rail. >> let's be real. the current project as planned would cost too much and respectfully take too long. there has been too little oversight and not enough transparency. >> as of now, the only part of the plan that will be finished is the stretch between merced and bakersfield. state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are at odds with the governor's approach. >> we have to make sure that the projects that we have already started get done and see where we go from there. >> i know the valley. that train will not save the economy of the valley. we will just put more billions into it. >> as kpix 5 clinical reporter explains, governor newsom ha

wilson walker has more of the newly released video and what the police chief is now saying about it. wilson? >> reporter: yeah. it was november 15th around 9:00. a man called 911. he said that a neighbor's boyfriend was threatening him with what he thought was a knife and now we can finally see what happened in the moments right after those 911 calls and again we do want to warn you that the video is graphic. >> okay of course the -- okay. the male with the black stripes in jeans is supposed to be the one with a knife. >> reporter: police arrive. about seven seconds later shots are fired. >> put the knife down! >> please don't! please don't! >> put it down! >> shots fired. >>i'm not trying to explain why it happened. i'm not trying to justify why it took place. i'm simply trying to provide information so the community knows what happened that night. >> reporter: hayward police chief mark koller said releasing this video is about transparency. he declined to draw conclusions from it, but that is not the case for the family of 29-year- old agustin gonsalez. the family says video shows o

kpix5's wilson walker with the video that's tough to watch. >> reporter: it started when a man said he was being attacked in the street by a neighbor's boyfriend. we can now see what happened when police responded and we want to warn you that the video is graphic. >> okay. the male with black stripes and jeans is supposed to be the one with a knife. >> reporter: in surveillance video we see pretty much what was reported to 911, an altercation in the street and a man that appears armed with a knife. police arrive and about seven seconds later the shots are fired. >> put the knife down. >> please don't please! >> put the knife down! >> shots fired. >> i'm not trying to explain why this happened. i'm not trying to justify why it took place. i'm simply trying to provide information so the community knows what happened. >> reporter: hayward police chief mark koller says releasing this video is about transparency. he declined to draw any conclusions from it, but that is not the case for the family of 29-year-old agustin gonsalez. >> you can't even openly see he's holding the blade in that ha

wilson walker is live on the scene to show us the damage. >> reporter: yeah, a mess on top of the mess here. for one driver, it was a rough and to the morning commute. take a look. >> so i got a call from my friend on his way to work and he says, there is this little mud puddle in front of your house and i didn't think much of it because of the storm and my wife looks out the window and she says, oh my god! come and look at this! there is water shooting out of the air. >> firefighters arrived on the scene just as she was stuck in the sinkhole and they were able to a service assist her out of the vehicle. >> reporter: coming up, water and a lot of mud overwhelming the storm drains sending water pouring down on the houses before crews could clear the drain out. in the past hour, water has been restored to most of the customers in this neighborhood with the exception of the hose right beside the break. >> these may not have utilities for a while. >> i just got off the phone with east bay mud. the first thing, does this have anything to do with the storm? the answer, we have no idea. this

team coverage in the area right now, let's begin with wilson walker live near guerneville.e showed you from the chopper 5 what is going on in guerneville. a town essentially surrounded by water. the impact of this as i mentioned at 5:00 sprints way beyond guerneville, just try getting around this part of western sonoma county. you will run into all kinds of challenges. >> i never seen anything like this in 30 years and ever living around this area. this is incredible, incredible. a lot of rain, a lot of water, a lot of flooding. >> reporter: all across western sonoma county the water kept rising and it

team coverage in the area right now, let's begin with wilson walker live near guerneville. truck we showed you from the chopper 5 what is going on in guerneville. a town essentially surrounded by water. the impact of this as i mentioned at 5:00 sprints way beyond guerneville, just try getting around this part of western sonoma county. you will run into all kinds of challenges. >> i never seen anything like this in 30 years and ever living around this area. this is incredible, incredible. a lot of rain, a lot of water, a lot of flooding. >> reporter: all across western sonoma county the water kept rising and it left everybody trying to make their way around. >> i came through this direction to go to work and the road closure naturally. >> it was not just in low-lying areas that made their way into the hills, it was a different kind of roadblock stored aftermath in nearly every direction. >> the roads are really beat up in sonoma county. trees down, slides, water over the road. >> you can see it starts to let go and you hear the cracks and >> we found a slide on canyon road w

. >>> dozens of people can't get back to their homes on that hillside, kpix 5 wilson walker has their story tonight, wilson? >> reporter: here is a perfect example of what we hav lookat allday he po t to manage access to the neighborhood, we are here in sunshine avenue over here, and as you can see, it's been a lot of cars having to turn around, people trying to get in and out, of the neighborhood, it's been like this all day, but let me show you a video from earlier today,, and let me tell you, it poured off and on out here on sunshine avenue, and on these narrow streets, it was all of these folks trying to get out, and all of the crews that were trying to get in here, to perform the necessary repairs in a lot of cases, the trucks like you see there had to get into the streets in reverse, with their equipment. of course, these are the folks that were trying to get the water fixed, they had to cut the gas line that you see there, to get the gas from stopping, the gas leak that they had, they had neighbors turning around to get their homes an endless pouring of water through this neigh

kpix5's wilson walker attended a community meeting today and explains how the ultimatum really isn't sitting too well with residents. wilson? >> reporter: look, no one was under any illusion that rebuilding from this fire would be easy. today might have been a very good lesson in just how difficult it is going to be. >> like i said, fema told me that i could move back and that's why i did. >> reporter: for john robert williams the decision to move back to paradise was easy. fema let him set up this trailer not long after the camp fire destroyed his home, but now he and other survivors are asked to move again. >> they've already uprooted their life one time. it's going to be traumatic for people. >> this is bs. >> reporter: the decision came at a contentious and often rowdy meeting at town hall today. >> sit down, please. >> reporter: the paradise town council previously approved an ordinance allowing people burned out of their homes to bring in those trailers, but fema now says that fire debris must be removed before a property can be reoccupied. in other words, if the debris isn't go

kpix 5's wilson walker.. with the video that's tough to watch. new at 11: san francisco's district attorney has dropped all charges against 3 sheriff's deputies. they were accused of running a fight club behind bars. veronica de la cruz is here with the new developments. veronica: elizabeth and ken: the deputies were accused in 2015 of forcing inmates in the city jail to fight, gladiator style. tonight prosecutors say... the sheriff's department botched the investigation . according to prosecutors... there was improper collaboration... between internal affairs and criminal investigators. and that violated their right against self- incrimination. also... some evidence was destroyed. however... the d-a's office says new charges are still possible. "what we're going to do now is, we're going to take all the tainted evidence, we're going to put it to the side. we're going to provide the rest of the evidence to our independent investigations bureau so that they can proceed with the investigation in this case." a lawyer for one accused deputy acknowled

live on highway 37, wilson walker, kpix5. >> we rip caltrans when they screw up. we should praise them when a do good work and they've had a busy month. thumbs up caltrans. thank you, wilson. >>> we're getting a new look at the aftermath of a devastating mudslide, downed trees and destroyed homes on a sausalito hillside. this evening a new idea of just how hard the rebuilding efforts is going to be. kpix5's andria borba is in sausalito with that story. >> reporter: take a look behind me. across this ravine you'll think it looks a lot like it did last week. in fact, it may look a lot like this for quite some time to come out here in sausalito. neighbors tell me after the '82 mudslide recovery was not measured in days, weeks, months, but in years. >> life is gone. i have to build from here. >> reporter: while the emergency face of thursday morning's mudslide in sausalito has passed, now the daunting task of recovery remains. at the city council meeting monday residents who are now homeless got to share their stories. >> on top of living in a hotel right now i'm tryin

and kpix 5's wilson walker now. he is at st. mary's cathedral where an evacuation center has just been set up, right, wilson? >> well, we imagine that is going to happen in the next 30 minutes or so. amazingly no one is seriously hurt or killed in that explosion. but what we don't know yet is exactly how many people have been displaced by the explosion and subsequent fire. the mayor spoke about this a little bit. she said she doesn't know how many folks have been displaced from their homes, but she does expect the number to be significant enough to require a shelter. now, we're here at st. mary's cathedral. when we got here we walked into the office. i spoke to the gentleman sort of managing the desk here, and he said they had just finalized plans to use a sort of basement floor gathering room as the shelter here. they had just made that decision. he says he does not know when exactly folk also be setting -- folks will be setting up that shelter here, but he was under the understanding it would happen in the next 30 to 40 minutes

. >>> and wilson walker continues our team coverage. he is at an evacuation center being set up right now. wilson? >> reporter: yes, the city is still trying to get a hard number of how many people will be displaced because of the fire, and the red cross, about half a dozen red cross workers have shown up here. they're clearing out a large space in the basement floor of the cathedral here, and i'm told that they are expecting up to 12 people. i don't know if that means the capacity for 12 people or they have identified 12 specific people who need a place to stay tonight, but that is about the number they are looking at here so they're about to roll in the infrastructure that would allow people to sleep here. the city is not sure how many people have been displaced. so they're standing by here. they're getting a couple of shifts of red cross workers ready to work through the night and into tomorrow. and i think that point they will have a better idea of how many folks need housing because of the fire. so we will be standing by here to see

kpix5 wilson walker live along highway 37 with how the crews there are trying to get that roadway to out. >> reporter: that was week i was in castro valley and i got to watch them replace a broken water main start to finish. well, today i'm getting to watch a crew try to remove a whole lot of water from highway 37. we're standing on the westbound lanes of 37 here. you can see sort of what they're trying to do. you've got a lot of water on the highway. you have to get it off somehow. you are looking at the barrier that will get this highway dry. while i have enjoyed watching this, it has been a very different experience for folks driving around out here trying to get around this mess. >> yeah, they are. we've got westbound 37 closed. we're hoping to get it open sometime this week, but we still aren't sure. >> reporter: while work continues to clear highway 37 of floodwater, drivers are trying to work their way around it. >> 10 extra minutes, something like that. >> reporter: the atherton detour was often a crawl through the southern end of nevada. >> it's going to take us forever. >>

we have team coverage beginning with kpix 5's wilson walker in the town of forestville. >> reporter: we are just up the river from guerneville. you can see the pg&e crews still trying to manage the gas feeding into the community. and the folks living here very much hoping this is about to creep away from their doorstep. >> it looks like it's gonna let up for a couple days, then another system is coming. hopefully it won't be that bad. >> reporter: as the russian river finally reached its crest in the dead of night here, neighbors living alongside it could only hope that the worst was behind them. >> we are on the sunridge avenue in forestville. >> reporter: toured into forestville by canoe. >> this is one of the first places it floods. >> reporter: as for those not flooded out of their homes, there was the challenge of simply getting around western sonoma county today. >> i came through this direction to go to work. and the road closed right after me. >> reporter: in the lowe lying area, it was water. if you made your way into hills, it was a different set of roadblocks. >> the roads

some of the murals include education by george wilson walker and harvest by nelson poole. also note the really beautiful brick awowork with the diaper pattern on the tower. the second landmark decision nation is the sun -- designation is the sunshine school. it was constructed 1937. it's significant for its association with events. it was the first public school specifically designed for children with disabilities built west of the rockies, and it was constructed using funds from the public works administration. it's also very architecturally significant. it embodies the characteristics of the spanish colonial revival style and it has colonial and moorish being sets. it exhibits high artistic values in its ingenius floor plans which was to combine two specialized schools for chronically ill students and disabled students into one campus. the building also had a therapeutic pool for the children. there is no known public or neighborhood opposition to the designation of these three schools. staff has presented to the building and grounds committee of the san francisco school