there s some snow up in the mountains in california. but right now they have the issue of rain. a lot of people stuck in it literally right now. the mud out there. in particular we re talking about the town of highland, east of los angeles. that s right at the foot of the san bernardino mountains. five homes have been lost to mudslides. that was just before christmas. a new storm now is the threat. it s bearing down, coming down today. casey is standing by. i hope you can hear me okay. take it away. reporter: i don t know if you can hear me. i m having trouble hearing you. you can see some of the clean up effort that s going on behind me. we ve got dozens of men from the california department of corrections. we got lots of earth moving equipment. they are desperately trying to get some of these flooded streets cleaned up. even though the rain is very, very light right now, and local officials believe that if they are lucky the worst of this latest storm has passed this area