Water gushing out of the south bay reservoir, not to reduce flooding but to prevent a different kind of disaster. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. We are finally getting a break from ten Straight Days of rain. To say the bay area is waterlogged an under statement. A snapshot of the reservoirs now. Lake shasta is at 92 . Anderson is at 91 full. That Water District is releasing water, which is hard to understand when the state is officially in a drought. Eric thomas explains why this water has to go. He wants to jump in. We cant let him. Reporter theres no way he could paddle through the turbulent water flooding into coyote creek. People have come down to take a look. Its spectacular. A lot of water they have to release out of the dam. Its pretty wild. Reporter the wis releasing protect the 230 foot tall dam built in 1950. Its not seismically safe. The reservoir is limited to 68 capacity. Its currently at 91 . At the rate of inflow and the storms in the forecast, we exp
Are cleaning up, pumping out and drying out tonight after a week of rain. We could really use some clear weather. Sandy has been tracking when we might see some more rain. Sandy, it sounds like me might be getting a nice break. Yes, indeed, ama and dan. Say so long to the rain. Live doppler 7 is quiet tonight. When you take a look at the sevenday rainfall totals, topping 12 inches. Over a foot of rain. Mount saint helena and kent field, we got about a half a foot in danville. Ben lomond almost 11 inches of rain. Lower elevations 1 1 2 inches to three nuinches in after. It has pushed our season to date well above average. Santa rosa 203 of normal. 183 in livermore. 152 oakland. Were doing good in the rainfall department. Flood warning continues for the russian river. Minor flooding has been reported. Thats going to continue through tomorrow morning. Rivers take a while before they begin to recede. Central Sonoma County also under a Flood Warning until 8 30 tomorrow morning. Primarily Ma
With the roads. Santa cruz director rosemary says officials are mapping areas which are difficult to get to a good day. 911 and social agencies such as churches may be the best way for residents to gets help and First Responders could rely on their feet. Plans on how to get in and able to help people in an actual emergency. Some of that would require getting in on foot. We are using the search and rescue teams to go in and help people get in and out in an emergency. Officials hope dryer weather will help crews to get ahead of the curve before the next closure becomes an inconvenience. We have ambulances up here but other than that we are stuck. And we learned of another impact. Valencia school will be looking for a new home at least in the shortterm. The roads around that School Including Valencia Road and trout goat road heavily damaged and mud lights and so they are having a having a hard time getting people in the school. For the next week that school will be closed completely tryin
Good evening. We begin tonight with the growing battle over immigration in this country. Hundreds of undocumented immigrants were arrested this week across the nation in what authorities insist are routine Law Enforcement operations. It is bolstering the hopes of many who voted for President Trump because of his tough stance on immigration. For many others growing fear tonight of family separation. More than 16 Million People in this country live in a household with at least one undocumented immigrant. We get the latest from nbcs gabe gutierrez. Reporter on the same week that protest erupted in arizona as a mother convicted of using a false Social Security number was deported. Families of undocumented immigrants say theyre now living in fear from california. With donald trump being president i see no hope for us. Reporter to North Carolina. Our communities are being terrorized. Reporter immigration and Custom Enforcement raids in six states. Ice says operations were routine and targete
Did he leave you bond . Or did he unbind you . He left me bound and he also put a chain around my neck. And the new blizzard threat. Where its headed and the new technology that could save your life on those icy roads. Tonight, we put it to the test. Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this saturday. Im tom llamas. We begin tonight with the wa of undocumented immigrant arrests. Targeted raids, carried out by u. S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement officials. The flurry of new arrests raising new questions tonight. Is it an uptick in volume due to the Trump Administration or just standard procedure . Minnesota, marching in support of refugees and immigrants. Abcs jim avila starts us off tonight. Reporter tonight, mounting arrests of undocumented immigrants fueling these calling it an enforcement surge. Advocates fearing that donald trump promised deportation squads. Is rounding up undocumented immigrants. Were going to have a deportation force. We have some bad hombres here and were