I phyllis describes him very well. He is the author of three works of naval history. The last stand of the tin can standards. Named by naval history magazine as one of a dozen alltime naval classics. His second book, ship the ghosts about the cruiser uss of houston usf houston was a mental action of the military book club and the winner in 2007 at the United States maritime literature award. His most recent book, negative positive inferno, published by bantam in 2011 is an account of the water canal naval campaign. He has handled a number of nonfiction bestsellers, including the number one new flagss bestseller of our fathers. He will serve as the moderator. Today, he will be speaking about his most recent book neptune possibly inferno. Neptunes inferno the u. S. Navy at guadalcanal. Model specter of the wall street journal praised it. Compellingnt, a narrative of naval combat. It is a New York Times Publishers Weekly and boston globe bestseller. It is my very rate pleasure to hornfisc
Two separate areas of downpours. Meanwhile, the good news is that nothings happening right now in terms of precipitation in the area of this Flood Warning for coyote creek, which is in effect until 10 31 friday morning. Well keep monitoring this and ill have a closer look at where the rain is headed in a few minutes. Larry and ama . Thank you, spencer. Todays top story is the flooding in san jose. The water is coming from coyote creek. It starts in morgan hill at Anderson Lake, which is overflowing. The creek roughly parallels highway 101 through the city of san jose before it reaches the bay. We want to get a wide view from sky 7 to give you perspective here on how much water is in this creek. You can see a wide expanse of muddy water near 101. Now, the neighborhood that suffered the most is called rock springs. Cars and homes are under water along senter road not far from the los lagos golf course. David louie is beginning our coverage at senter avenue and phelan avenue. Reporter res
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