It happened in the middle of the night as a raging pinole creek washed away a huge chunk of Alhambra Valley road at castro ranch near pinole. I think theres a hole. Big hole. A big hole, yeah. A little excitement in pinole. Its pretty crazy. I mean knowing that i drove this last night and now seeing that theres nothing there, i take this road all the time. My friends and come and hang out here. Its just kind of shocking. Reporter in martinez, a deli owner spent his morning cleaning up after overflowing Alhambra Creek pushed a sea of water and mud into downtown. All my patio, all sticks, chairs started moving. Its crazy. Reporter ben owns the Martinez Athletic Club on crass electrostreet. We had to stop class and some people were like were stopping class for what, its just raining. We open the door and they saw that the rain was like past the curb and was on the curb. It was almost to the front door. Reporter in benicia, it was heavy rain, high tides and overflowing lake herman that cau
The Russian River is cresting in sonoma county, that means its hitting the highest point of course the river has been over flood stage for hours and will stay flooded for more hours. Wade freed miedman is live with difference. Reporter good evening, dan. It begins to rain once again. Flood stage is 38 feet. Residents say to their eyes, its been going down for quite awhile. One thing we know for certain, cleaning up is going to take along time. This is bad news to everyone except school kids who just learned tonight that classes are cancelled tomorrow. Welcome to lake. Its been awhile from moving to point a to point b presented such daunting challenges. How do you get from here to there . Right now you dont. You dont get from here to there. Reporter its part of the drill in a region where the Russian River floods, road signs became prone to under statement and residents to resignation or maybe indigestion. Tuna fish, beer, you know, the officials. Reporter thats betsy van dyke cut off w
Ill go over some of the river warnings and creek warnings coming up next. This morning, drivers in the east bay will have to figure out how to get around a massive roadway mess on a popular shortcut. Look at this video. East of pinole, Alhambra Valley road collapsed last night and left a gaping hole, 70 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. It was washed away by all the water thats been flowing through pinole creek the past few days. Drivers use this to get to second inning 80. It is now closed indefinitely and no estimate on when repairs could even begin. In martinez, a large lip us the branch fell. They took out the entire tree after fears were expressed the entire thing could come down. This particular eucal has lost a branch before and i think the city is doing a great thing cutting it down. You hate to lose a tree but its a safe move right here. There was damage to the drivers convertible as you can see but he is reportedly going to be okay. Once the rain stops and the waters recede in hol
Since i last saw you, that hazmat crew has arrived and they have unloaded many of the chemicals from the back of that pickup truck into their own vehicle. This is just the first step in getting the exit ramp from northbound 880 on to mission boulevard back open for this morning commute. Its obviously a very important road for people heading to work this morning. This all happened just before 1 00 this morning. The f150 pickup truck crashed into the sand barrels, separating the exit ramp with 880. Pool chemicals ended up spilling out, including what they think could be sulfuric acid. Biggest concern is they could mix and that would be bad for everyone out here. Now they dont believe any spilled into the drain or waterways. The driver was not hurt but he was arrested on suspicion of dui. Once they get these pool chemicals cleaned up out of that truck and away from the scene, then theyll have to call in the tow truck, get that truck towed away, and then hopefully people will be able to us
Chemicals from the pickup truck and putting them in their truck. The pool chemicals spilled out. Firefighters and chp officers were concerned they could mix and cause real problems so they closed the exited ramp. The driver was arrested for dui. Now, probably about 20 minutes ago we heard a big crash and we had two vehicles that were involved in a collision right next to the exit ramp here, so obviously, people are paying attention to whats going on here. Youve got a big tractor thats now involved and is going to be pushing those barrels out of the way and you have the two vehicles parked on the side of the road after that crash. So, obviously, some issues with the rain as well so its very dangerous for drivers who are driving here on northbound 880 as they try to figure out how to get off the freeway here to get to mission boulevard and also get across to 680 this morning. Reporting live in fremont, matt keller. I can see why that would be really confusing as people are just trying to