residents. ten inches of rain fell on the west coast yesterday and there have been reports of high water rescues and people trapped in their homes by mud. in oregon at least two people were killed by falling trees. milk bill karins joins us now. the damage is incredible here. >> yeah. we're watching the effect of the most powerful storms to go through california in five years. california used to deal with storms like this practically ere winter. ever since we started the historic drought, we haven't seen anything like this. it's needed but we goat see the effect of mother nature. this is the before picture. this is 94% of the state of california in severe drought. now we have the big rain event. we'll get the new updated map next week. all indications this is a just a little drop in the bucket. it will not come close to knocking us out over the drought. lakes that went down hundreds of feet only went up about five to ten feet. it was significant. so let's not minimize it.