Evacuation orders. Heres abc News Reporter danya backes. Reporter its an allout search for rescuers. We have multiple reports of people trapped. Reporter plowing through the walls of mud, standing on top of homes, using search dogs hoping to find those who are reported missing. Our worst fear coming to life right now. Our people are out there trying to do the best work they can and perform as many rescues as they can. Reporter the rain fell hard. Officials say 2 to 4 inches fell in less than 30 minutes in some areas. Bearing down on the same parts of Southern California blackened by those devastating wildfires. The only words that describe what it looked like, a world war i battle field. Reporter with nothing to hold the soil in place, debris and mud flows wreaked havoc in the middle of the night. I woke up my wife, we did not know what to do, surrounded by mud. I ran and jumped on the bed and basically in seconds it was as high as the countertop inside the house. Reporter the mud swee
Live where you live. This is abc 7 news. Daring rescues. Saving lives in Santa Barbara county. The region hit by a devastating storm that dumped have half an inch of rain in five minutes setting off mudslides. Search and rescue crews are finding people amid the wreckage, like this family. Parents, children, including a baby, even dogs lifted safely out of their homes. Thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im dan ashley. The area of Santa Barbara county hit by the storm is only just beginning to recover from the thomas fire. Mudslides, flash flooding, and debris flows that were wastehigh. At least 50 people have been rescued using air support. Dozens more were rescued on the ground. 7,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders. Heres abc News Reporter danya backes. Reporter its an allout search for rescuers. We have multiple reports of people trapped. Reporter plowing through the walls of mud, standing on top of homes, using search dogs hoping to find those who are reported missing.
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today im in brooklyn, new york, on my way to meet three brothers at a selfstorage joint in historic coney island. Thats where they found their strange inheritance, left to them by a homeless relative with a big surprise under lock and key. My names seth lerner. Our second cousin, howard frank, died mysteriously in 2012. Thats when my brothers and i found out that we inherited the contents of his five Storage Units. We were shocked the first time we rolled up those doors. Hi, guys. Im jamie. Im ian. Good to meet you. Hi. Im seth. Nice to meet you both. You wrote me about a wild story about a cousin and that he left all his belongings here . His whole life is here in this storage bin. Howard rented five of these 10x15foot units. When we opened up the lockers, we actually found a place where he might have been sleeping. Wow. We didnt really know until we found this place. He never really told us. They did not need to be told back in the spring of 2012 tha
We spoke to some miami police that were here. And they told us they plan on patrolling until the sustained winds get to 30 Miles Per Hour. The radar is showing wind speeds of 25, Miles Per Hour. He said that once those sustain winds get to 35 Miles Per Hour, they will take cover. I will bring you the latest coverage and we will have details on folks grabbing sandbags in the area. Yes, that is true, First Responders, police officer, you will have no access to those First Responders during the height of the storm. Lets show you what the storm looks like right now. Again, churning as it makes its way towards florida. We bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. That is warm water prime fuel for this monster storm. We think it could threaten again. It still hasnt lost too much strength. It is sandwiched between the ba hamas and also cuba. Northern coastline in terms of the wind speed, we just got an intermediate update, it is 155 Miles Per Hour. In terms of the path of this, we now see a
Surprised to see your house Still Standing . Very surprised. The neighbors called and said our house was Still Standing. So i said lets go. We had livestock here, so we came to get our livestock. Reporter how are they . Burned some. But little pigmy goats. Everyone around us is gone. Next to us over here is still here. So the couple over here and the Fire Department came win bulldozers and they did save it basically by bulldozing all the land. What do you make of that . Its great. Thank god for cdf. Reporter back here live at highway 12, the police have set up a barricade here because of everything going on in glen ellen. There are too many hazards on and along highway 12. Thats the latest near glen ellen. Abc 7 news. Well, fires keep burning in a hard hit part of santa rosa where flames destroyed a number of businesses and hospitals are dealing with not just people but patients that had to be rushed from other facilities. Live from santa rosa with more. Katy. Kristen and dan, i can te