Its been really unstable. Even with cal transcoming out. You can see it. People living along the San Lorenzo River knew trouble was coming when the rain didnt let up. Some are cleaning up after the river literally rushed on to their property. You know its coming. It hasnt stopped raining. Hopefully, it will not raise too fast but we knew it was coming. Well, as you can see, tonight will be a crucial time for both situations. Homeowners here will try to keep track of the rivers progress in the dark. While how much repair work gets done on highway 17 will determine how long that road stays closed. Live in the santa cruz mountains, nbc bay area news. Thank you. This relentless rain creating problems for drivers across the bay area. Take look. Highway 84 is closed for mission boulevard. Thats a Fremont Fire Department truck checking the roadway. We just learned cal trans is manning to reopen. Meanwhile all winter long a major trouble spot between 101 and novato avenue. It continues to be a trouble spot. Cal trans crews is working on it. Getting flooded out of your home is frustrating but when it happens repeatedly, frustration turns into anger. Thats whats happening at a mobile home park. You see it here on the peninsula. Rick, weve been here before. Whats the response this time around . Reporter the response from the city, raj, they have their pumps in action and theyre trying to get the water out as quickly as possible. Thats not happening any time soon and it may not happen tonight. This as residents are concerned that this is 10 00 to seep into their homes. Within hours this redwood city trailer park quickly turned into a water park bringing in gallons of concern. . It is an good thing. Everybody gets their property destroyed. And sometimes cars get destroyed. Reporter during storms, several of these mobile home parks take on water. It is a raw sewage cocktail for residents. I couldnt to go work today because of this. And i take care of handy cap people so it is pretty bad. Reporter this has become all too common here. Another flood here to be red tagged. Now theyre asking public works to fix the issue quickly. The city needs to come out and do a little more in the back ask the owner needs to put in probably some more pumps. Possible. Reporter were not hearing anything about the red tag issue on what is happening at this point. That will be assessed throughout the entire evening. Well be here a little longer and well tell but more challenges and right now theyre living in a trailer spapark thas now a water park. In the south bay, getting hit hard as well. This is in hollister. The flooding there that weve seen in previous storms. We should add 101 in the gilroy area being closely watched for floods. Evacuations and Flood Warning alarms kept people on watch today. All eyes on the san anselmo creek. It left a muddy mess today. Downtown Business Owners had evacuation orders. They moved their cars to higher ground. I moved all the rugs, my furniture, shoes, clothes. Now we want to take a live look at creek levels from the ross valley live camera in downtown san anselmo. Head to evacuate about ten homes in ross but then allowed them back in after the creek subsided. A devastating today for a san rafael family. You can see a wall of mud slid down a hillside and split their home in two. Nbc bay area sharon has been posting pictures on twitter and this whole neighborhood is nervously watching that hillside. Exactly. And were seeing a lot of the neighbors come out right now and theyre really looking at the devastation behind me. In shock right now. They opened up this road earlier. The car was cut off. The power is back. Firefighters say it is relatively safe so people are allowed to walk along here and check out the devastation. But it is a reminder for everyone to look out for each other. It started off like a normal day for john. When he got home from dropping off his daughter at school, things got serious. I talked on public works. He asked if anyone was in there. I went back in to get my wife and my son and there was a slide that came down and started coming through kitchen window. Then it got worse. A lot worse. His son mark explains. I saw dirty muddy water down the window. Which we could see on the patio. It was full and then a rock hit it and the window broke and mud spread everywhere. Firefighters kept on the unstable situation. Were still looking at a couple trees that have been exposed now. The roots have been exposed. Fortunately, no one was injured. Though school was kansas he told due to rain, marco had a lesson in friendship. I gave him my blanket, my warmest blanket because he was shivering. You can see that is the tree that they are worried about. Still, a lot of trees in this area like. That leaning over along the hillside. The Fire Department said the neighbor shs report anything that looks like it may be a problem and theyll come out to help. Nbc bay area news. The wind is causing major problems. This is a common sight. Trees down across the area. It crashed to the ground in martinez. Pg e crews worked several hours. Mud covered the parking lot of the couldntra costa Regional Medical central after water and mud leaked through manhole. The city drains couldnt handle all the rain because of the damage from last months storm. Were all feeling as though were not getting that break. We felt like we cleaned up from the last one. And in pleasant hill, more downed trees and flooding briefly shut down several roads. Heavy rain leaving mess in the trivalley area. Take a look at this area in danville. Creeks filling over into a neighborhood. One of our viewers. We want to see your pictures and videos. Well have more pictures and video to show you later. Storm ranger doppler radar, one of the top flooding concerns along the Russian River in guerneville. Flood warnings on wednesday on tracking the river level whirgt crests and when well get some drying in less than ten minutes. And the president s travel ban is in the hands of the ninth Circuit Court of appeals in san francisco. Well have that coming up. An hour long Conference Call ma the president s controversial t gorny attorneys for the us an hour long Conference Call may determine the immediate fate of the president s travel ban. Today attorneys for the federal government and the state of washington made their arguments. The white house wants to reinstate its ban after a lower Court Temporarily halted it. Mark matthews is outside the Circuit Court where hes been listening to the proceedings. Just as an ambulance went streaming by. The president does have the power to ban foreigners from entering the country if their entry is seen as a detriment to the nation. And lawyers for the president say what he wants to do is put the temporary ban in place while the measures for visas and the procedures are vetted. The u. S. The lawyer for the president said today that it is within the president s power to issue this executive order and that the order was intended to allow visa vetting to be tightened. Not to discriminate against a particular religion. On the other side, the solicitor general of the state of washington said he had made statements as a candidate that he wanted to ban muslims from the u. S. And washington filed its lawsuit dpenls the president s ban in part because the state believes the ban discriminates against a particular religion. Who do you think won this thing . I think based on the questioning by the judges, theyre leaning toward state of washington because they had difficult questions for both sides. But because of the stage of the case, which is very, very early and very preliminary, i think that theyre going to let this temporary order stand for a while until the Trial Court Judge robart gets a chance to hear more evidence. Now, this hearing just ended within the past hour. The court has said that it helped take the arguments under advisement. We dont know when they will rule. We will be back at 6 00 with some of the, what was said. Well have recordings from the proceedings and more analysis of our u. S. Law professor. N. Bay area news. People awaiting the decision. Here a closer look at the panel that will rule on this appeal. The judge appointed by president carter at age 85. Judge richard clifton, appointed by president george w. Bush in 2002. He received his law degree from yale. And judge michelle friedland, born in berkeley and a stanford grad. She is one of the youngest federal judges at age 44. President trump got his way on capitol hill just barely for the first time in history, a Vice President cast the tie breaking vote to confirm a cabinet nominee. Mike pences vote confirmed her. They cited her lack of familiarity with public education. I do not believe betsy voss should be the next secretary of education. 5150. Well have more on these appointments coming up on nightly news. A hawaii getaway didnt go as planned for some bay area travelers. This is the Route United Airlines flight 1111 was supposed to take. This is the path that actually took. It looks like a childs doodle. Not long from taking off, the plane developed a mechanical issue forcing the turnaround. Before handlanding, it burned o four hours worth of fuel in stormy weather. Lets get back to our micro climate weather alert. A key road into yosemite has been closed. This is just inside Yosemite National park. That means there no, sir access 53 highway 120. It will be closed at least until tomorrow morning. The storm is bringing a lot of snow to the sierra. The road looks good. Earlier the area got one to two feet of snow. Now there are concerns about flooding. It is starting to warm up and the snow is turning into rain. Thought arraign is good for our drought which is now over but bad for traffic. Take a look at the flooding in menlo park. This video was sent to us by a viewer. We want to see your pictures and videos. You can post it on our facebook page. The creek in the late 1990s gave a lot of people a problem with the flooding. And it looks like it has reached its peak for today. Were still watching so many other locations for some isolated areas of flooding as we head throughout the next 24 hours. Our mobile doppler radar. You get a wide look toward the pacific, you can see the next plume of moisture lining up. Thats the new storm system that will be here within 48 hours. Lets go ahead and zoom in to our mobile doppler radar. Not a whole lot left. The heaviest rainfall has moved out. We had some spotty showers toward the south bay and also the santa cruz mountains. This will be lingering over the next couple of hours. The top flooding concerns continue along Alameda Creek and nyles canyon. Anyone living along Alameda Creek needs watch out for areas of flooding. It is very note worthy, 84 has been shut down due to multiple rock and mud slides. Now, the other location were watching with our flooding is the Russian River in guerneville. Flood warnings until wednesday at 10 00 p. M. I am going to have an updiet when the crest is expected. For more perspective on how much rain weve had, heres jeff. Showing across the santa cruz mountains, the threeday totals, very impressive. Five to eight inches of rain since sunday. You see the north bay, too. Almost four inches of rain. As we add things up, almost 30 inches of rain in the santa cruz mountains. It is almost 50 to 60 of what would you get in 52 weeks. A similar story in the north bay. More than 20 inches of rain. In some cases, 80 for the year has fallen just since january 1st. Every time storms come in, the Flooding Risk goes up. Lets look at wednesday. I dont think there will be any problems coming our way as we head into tomorrow. Mainly some scattered areas of rainfall. It is really thursday morning. The storm is speeding up. Well likely see some heavier rainfall returning. This will push the heavier rain all the way into the afternoon and early evening hours on thursday. How much brain this next bout of wet weather . I think the entire area is locked in for at least three quarters of an inch. Most of the bay area in the orange color about, an inch and a half. Santa cruz could pick up another two and a half inches. Primarily on thursday as the next storm rolls in. We promised you a look at the river levels. The napa river in downtown napa is nearing its crest at 25. 7 feet tonight. The Russian River in guerneville. A different story. Not expected to crest until 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Goes down on thursday but then well see it spike back up thursday into friday. Saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday, nothing but sunny skies and a mix of clouds. Thats for san francisco. For the interior valleys, we have this sunnier weather moving back in. And even with all this sunshine, the ground is still going to be very, very saturated. As you know, it is very, very heavy. The sevenday forecast look very nice. We are tracking possibly another round of wet weather by maybe next thursday, friday and saturday. So far it looks like it is coming our way. Still to come, sierra lamars mother takes stand what she remembers from the day her daughter disappeared. Reveal flighthave been ccelled o. 89 both arriving andepartinother bs 89 flights have been canceled so far at sfo. Other bay area airports are reporting minimal problems from our wet and windy weather. And the pipeline is finishing the finish line. They allow to it cross in north dakota. [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh the price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh the price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. The mother of sierra la mar this will likely be one of the most emotional days of the high profile trial. The mother of sierra lamar testified about the day her daughter vanished. She disappeared nearly five years ago in morgan hill. Marlene lamar sobbed on the witness stand as she recalled her daughter said, i love you, mom, on the morning she disappeared. Marlene talked about the desperate attempts on reach her daughter that afternoon. Prosecutors played her frantic 911 call in court today. Later marlene was asked to identify her daughters purse, jeans and sweatshirt that were found in a field near their home. All the testimony coming as Antolin Garcia torres, the man accused of killing sierra lamar. It is acknowledging when the world fell out from under you. When absolutely everything in your life changed. Where your homes and dreams were shattered. So how do you face Something Like that . It is like looking a fellow in the eye and not blinking. She was just a teenager on the way to high school. Jurors heard from her sister who said sierra never talked about running away. An attempt on derail a defense suggestion that sierra may have wanted to leave home. Sierras body has never been found. Back to the micro weather alert. Napa county tweeting out this picture of one of the many rocky unstable hill sides. Michelle robert is there with the road closures. Reporter were here on redwood road. Early this morning, about 4 00, crews say people called 911 when they heard the pg e transformer blow out caused by this massive mud slide. It started about 500 yards up this mountain and were told this debris could take about a week to clear. To say that it is massive is an understatement. Were looking at 3,000 to 5,000. They said this is the largest mud slide hes ever seen in the county. People still have a way to get out. About 15 miles north, drivers were around a major thorough fare after a huge tree smashed into a power line. Theyll to have wait for hours to get into his house while he waits for pg e crews to clear the area. He kept a close eye on the napa river that overflowed its banks. You can see the mud and trees on the lodi bridge where water had rushed over the road. And back in napa, crews continue to monitor this saturated hills just west of town. Pg e crews have cut the power to the area. Unfortunately, the ground is too uncertain so crews cannot move in here to start clearing out the area. There are about 500 homes on the other side of this mud slide. They do have another way out but it will add about 15 minutes to the commute. It could take more than a week to clear this out. Reporting in napa county, michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. A lot of problems everywhere. 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