On the other side of 280. The area around south 17th street is also flooded. Major flooding creating quite a mess in the neighborhood. Kron 4s Haaziq Madyun has been there all day. And joins us live now with update on the situation. Haaziq. I arrived here this morning and coyote creek has been rising ever since. Folks who live here along south 1th street tell me the last time the creek caused flooding was back in 97. But they say it was nothing like what they have seen here today coyote creek rising fast tuesday behind homes here on south 17th street in san jose this is very unusual, this is crazyi have been here since 1970 and i have never seen it this highresidents with low laying backyards are trying to prevent the water from flooding their homes. In some cases, it is a lost cause. The creek level has increased 10feet. Here you see the water is rising up to the roof line of this home. However a few doors down the water has yet to reach the foundation of mike smalls propertyyeah we a
Evacuation center tonight. And kron4s jr stone and Charles Clifford are covering both neighborhoods affected by the evacuations. First, we check in with j r. In the rock springs neighborhood. Two overnight Evacuation Centers are now open in san jose. For those who had to leave their flooded homes. Kron fours Spencer Blake is live at one of those shelters at James Lick High School. Spencer, whats happening there now . Some people are starting to hunker down for the night after a hot meal from the Salvation Army. Some of these people have had a day the rest of us can only imagine. As evacuees got off city buses that shuttled them to this overnight shelter, you could see very somber looks on some of their faces rather than wondering aif their neighborhood would flood, they already knew it had. I had to walk to the neighbors in the water and then we got rescued by the boat. The gym at James Lick High School which is on a week long break from classes holds just over two hundred cots. Later
Even though the rain is letting up in some locations. The problems are far from over. Kron4 chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp is tracking the trouble spots tonight. And we first told you about the san jose evacuations with a breaking news push alert we sent it through our mobile app at around noon. Be the first to know about breaking news when it happens with the kron4 news app. Coming up it is being called the new gold rush. Recreational pot. Well take you inside one of the first marijuana manufacturing labs in the state. Its right here in the bay area. Then a trip to the beach turns deadly in a flash. Where a woman was swept away by a rogue wave. And next a major update on the severe flooding that shutdown part of highway 101. When caltrans expects to have that stretch of road reopened. We need to be ready for whatever weather may come our way. My names Scott Strenfel and im a meteorologist at pg e. We make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may
Trucks filled with soil and aggregate work to stop flooding on 101. Sot because the creek is so high we have so much water coming into the canal. Upwards of 4 feet of water seeped onto the freeway, causing it to shut down. Sot several hundred vehicles were backed up. We had to turn all of them around to get them off the freeway. Sot its scary and i just worry for everybodys safetycoyote creek topped its banks and drained into the coyote canal earlier this morning. Eventually the pressure caused a break in the canal all that water flooded the freeway. Sot at one point it was 34 feet. It was almost all the way up the jersey wall herevehicles have been rerouted all day and night. Sgt. Tom melden california Highway Patrol sot going northbound 101 to cochrane, then cochrane westbound over to monterrey road, then monterey road northbound to get back on the freeway. That caused a lot of traffic and frustrationsot its just been a long day. Im coming from big sur and all the roads there are cav
Trucks filled with soil and aggregate work to stop flooding on 101. Sot because the creek is so high we have so much water coming into the canal. Upwards of 4 feet of water seeped onto the freeway, causing it to shut down. Sot several hundred vehicles were backed up. We had to turn all of them around to get them off the freeway. Sot its scary and i just worry for everybodys safetycoyote creek topped its banks and drained into the coyote canal earlier this morning. Eventually the pressure caused a break in the canal all that water flooded the freeway. Sot at one point it was 34 feet. It was almost all the way up the jersey wall herevehicles have been rerouted all day and night. Sgt. Tom melden california Highway Patrol sot going northbound 101 to cochrane, then cochrane westbound over to monterrey road, then monterey road northbound to get back on the freeway. That caused a lot of traffic and frustrationsot its just been a long day. Im coming from big sur and all the roads there are cav