Notify the neighborhood of Flood Warnings earlier. No question in my mind there was a failure of some kind. Well have plenty of time for monday morning quarterbacking in the days ahead. Right now we have to do everything we can to get people out. It will take a couple days for this neighborhood to drive out and before anybody can go back in, Structural Engineers will have to come check out the buildings to make sure theyre safe and then the cleaning begins. It will take long process to decontaminate all these homes. Michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. As the mayor was alluding to, there is a political discussion to be made but right now bits the rescue and the evacuations of everyone. Down below, almost completely under water. You can see rescue workers plucking people to safety after they were trapped by the rising waters. Those evacuates and so many more are in shelters across the south bay. Some are wondering what these warnings came as late as they did. Dozens of evacuates have been coming in by bus. And yes, weve heard many people grateful for the rescue efforts but also, some evacuees asking why the warnings came so late. While some vac evacees were that you told to safety, neighbors gathered sand bags. You live with people, youre around ten years, you get to know people. Everybody just helps out. But as shocked residents gathered what they could into plastic bags. Some diapers, infant needs. Thats it. Thats all we can manage. Where are you going to go . Hopefully family. Some say they didnt get enough warning from city officials as to just how bad things would get. We get a call this morning to come back over here and everything is gone. They didnt have any warning. They said would it flood a little. They didnt tell us that this would happen. People should have had a warning. Reporter as to the warning, the mayor said a little earlier this afternoon that parts of the coyote creek breached so quickly, they didnt know it would rise anywhere near that fast. Scott budman. Nbc bay area news. Not just people dealing with the flooding. Take a look at the horses stuck in rising waters. Memorandum of barns and stables stuck. Jeff ranieri is keeping a close eye on it. When we take look at the flooding, it is certainly something that happened very fast. Thats called nash flooding. You get so much warning that the water could go over the creek banks and produce flooding. But today again, just so much water coming from the reservoir. Little to no notice and thats what flash flooding is. When we ask you to stay away from the creeks, we definitely do mean it. As we get a look now, you can see these areas that continue. What im closely watching is rainfall. Another batch of moderate rainfall will ten into this area through 5 17 tonight so it will add to the water. A shred of good news, the coyotes creek which is producing all of these issues is slowly starting to drop. It hit a crest of 13. 6 feet this afternoon. Now down to 13. 2 feet. It may not actually go below flood stage until 3 00 p. M. Thursday. Were talking about several days of very high water where you may not actually be able to get back into your house. Speaking of which, areas under Flood Warning. Anyone living near coyote creek. We know we have these problems on highway 101 where it is completely flooded. The cars cannot get through. And then on east san jose, a Flood Warning in effect friday at 2 25. Do not drive through standing water. Please go the other way. We have a lot of rushing water. If you attempt it, you could get carried away in your car. So please watch closely. Major flooding happening. It is a new coyote creek river. It has never reached 13. 6 feet and thats why some of these flood plains did not know how far this water would spread. We have more in the forecast and another storm that could bring more flooding. Ill have the details coming up. Some perspective there. As he was alluding to, 101, a huge problem spott. This is right near the anderson dam. 101 flooded and shut down. This was taken from our sky ranger. The freeway might be shut down, at least partially shut down until tomorrow night. Robert was the first reporter to show us pictures on twitter and he has the latest on 101. Well, were here at what crews have been calling the coastline. A flood shutting down the freeway. You could say it is caused by the breach right over there. But it is really from the relentless storm. The water was building up and when it broke through, drivers on highway 101 paid the price. As you see from the sky ranger, fwraert an Overflowing River went to the canal and caused a breach. The breach at the san jose morgan line created a flood. They allowed people through on the shoulder but after a car stalled, traffic stopped. Very, very strange. Ive been living here the past 20 years. I have never experienced anything of this kind ever before. Santa chaira Water District are. The recovery has been slow. Everywhere. This weather pattern weve had now is a first. Weve had multiple choesh urs all over the county. Big rigs were allowed to go through. Others who wait for hours were turned around. It has been horrific. I wish they knew ahead of time. Not sure anybody could have predicted this. Caltrans said it could be closed until tomorrow night. Robert honda. Now well take you to the flood area where robert is down below. This is 101 northbound shut down. 101 and cochran exit. As robert was saying, they want to get this reopen tonight but kind of some differing opinions. The chp said it might be until tomorrow night. You can see first hand the traffic thats moving on the left side, thats southbound. The flooded zone is northbound 101. Nbc bay area sky ranger has been up over the flooding all afternoon. Some of the images are jarring. Entire neighborhoods submerged. As you can see here, cars in this neighborhood completely under water. And the only thing visible at this property is this home along 101. And just down stream, coyote creek quickly submerged a second neighborhood forcing hundreds of others from the Apartment Building. A lot of families with Young Children just had minutes to get out. We arrived around 1 30. The flooding began around 1 00. You can see all the water. Take look. This used to be a parking lot. These bicycles were barely in water. Now theyre almost completely submerged forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated. They had just minutes. This water rising in their Apartment Building on south 12th street in san jose. She took what she could carry. It is really flooded. Happening without warning. In total, three Apartment Buildings with roughly 500 People Living inside. Mostly families were asked to heave. I left a friends house that was ten minutes away and i came back. Here the foorire department chief. The water continued to rise coupled with the potential hazard. We thought it was best to evacuate for now. They said we cant come back for three days. And back here live, you can see some residents getting back in to grab what they can. Most are staying at a nearby shelter set up at a high school. It is unclear when theyll be able to come back here. Thank you. Perched up here. Lets go back to the sky ranger. Weve been talking about the closure of 101 in morgan hill. 101 and cochran road. Hoping to reopen tonight but it could be as late as tomorrow night. Heres a pit of good news. The traffic relatively light. Usually it is jam packed. Traffic is relatively light despite the closure. Northbound 101, flooded out. Hoping to reopen. You can see on your screen there. James lick high school, Roosevelt Community center. Many areas are on high alert as well. A woman sent us the video from her driveway. We want to see your pictures and video. Well have more in about 15 minutes. Masses of mud slides in marin. In sauce heat over, more. Im meteorologist jeff ranieri. Heavier rainfall, especially in San Francisco. It will push off to the north and the east. Ill tell you how long a dry spell will last before another storm could bring more flooding concerns. Mud slides have closed some major streets in marin county. Peep who live there are feeling the pinch. Reporter im on alexander avenue, a main thorough fair in and out of sausalito. The road behind me has been cleared of debris but the hillside above the road, too unstable to open this highway. Mud hangs from the side. Frankly, there is been consistent slides every time we get a series of rain. Nothing like this before. Drivers are being turned around on alexander avenue and told to drive through town to get to the freeway. An hour early now to go to the city. Usually it takes 25 minutes. The other big shied is on sir Francis Drake west of fairfax. This main route to central marin has been shut down since last night. And this afternoon repairs stalled. The workers needed an excavator to come in and pull down this extra material. The problem is there are so many slides right now in marin county. That equipment is hard to get. In the past 24 hours there has been this one. And another on lucas valley road. Its happening all over the place. Eric lives if fairfax and says it is worse than what weve shown you. Places that you cant even see on the trails. Up there. It is everywhere. Weve just heard from the department of public works in marin county. Theyre telling me that closure on sir Francis Drake is just minutes from reopening. They say it will be reopened by 5 30. For the latest, check with the department of public works. Nbc bay area used in. A man in berkeley has been accused of a stabbing at a private school. 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Giving him a criminal record at 18. This will make him do that. It is the met opposite. Catch our full investigation tonight at 11 00. Okay. Well see you then. Some good news right now. Highway 17 reopened finally after days of choesh urs. Southbound now. Is it going to let up . Probably. Ron will have more perspective on the rainfall. Ill take a look right now at what were seeing on storm ranger. We do have some heavier rounds of rainfall moving throughout the San Francisco peninsula off to the east bay. To an area that has been so hard hit. That has been the reservoir. Through 5 45 tonight. Specifically at the site of the reservoir, we have a little rainfall adding to it. Still not good news. We need completely dry conditions for this to begin to rapidly start to drop. In terms of Flood Warnings, it is basically anyone who lives down stream here near the coyote creek. Youre under a Flood Warning through the east bay. Excuse me. For the eastern san jose area. Especially this area that has been hard hit. 500 people have been evacuated. In terms of coyote creek where this problem is coming from, the good news, were starting to see a drop. Going from 13. 6 feet earlier down to 13. 2 feet. We think of the drop. A long time here before we get some substantial relief, meteorologist rob mayeda. Theyve been watching the impacts of these storms. The bullseye up fortunate had he. If we look at some of the locations, we did pick up almost three to six inches of rain. Just ginls the beginning of the year. That does feed into the anderson veser vo. The others are all spilling over. Thats 75 of the average. Thats really hard to believe after our four to fiveyear drought weve been under. This pushes off by 5 46 this evening. It may be some small isolated hail. When does this cheer out . I am expecting to it dry out. Some breaks of sun. It will be a colder start down to the south bay. Youll also see here for the north bay, 42 and some sun. San francisco, 49. The extended forecast. Excellent news to see the creeks, rivers and streams. Dry weather wednesday, thursday and friday. I am keeping my eye closely on sunday when we could see another half inch to one and a half inches of rainfall. That again could give us some problems along the Anderson Reservoir and coyote creek. So again we have this dry period coming our way and thats wonderful. Your analysis has been very helpful. Not only to us but everyone living there. Dramatic video of Anderson Reservoir. Hive in morgan hill. All this water just spilling over. Going down into coyote creek and causing historic flooding. 12346789 happening now, a battalion chief has been arrested. Were tweeting the latest updates. For the first time ever, San Franciscos famous presidio is getting a Visitors Center to help people get around the park. [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh the price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. Paul sent us this picture of a flooded park this san jose. And diane took a picture of a flooded intersection. Thats near coyote creek. And a spectacular picture of a rainbow over milbrae. We want to see your pictures and videos. We have more information on evacuations. I want to show you some live pictures from our sky ranger. This is right there at the Anderson Reservoir. The spillover there. And this is why were seeing the flooding in san jose, about 20 miles up the creek there. Or down the creek. An updated list of the evacuations. James lick high school, Mayfair Community center and shirakawa community center. The power here and 20 miles down this creek is where were seeing the flooding. And i dont think it will drop below flood stage until thursday afternoon. We have some spotty showers anyone traveling to the north. Watch out. Theyre getting pelted in San Francisco. This is moving toward oakhand by 5 55 tonight. And dry weather wednesday, thursday, friday, but a new threat on sunday. Well detail more of this at 6 00. 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