Please be careful in this location. Were also tracking the Anderson Reservoir which is spilling over pushing water into coyote creek. Anyone around coyote creek needs to be on high alert until thursday at 6 30. Were tracking the storm and the rainfall associated with it. Ill have more coming up at 6 10 tonight. That coyote creek stretches several miles in the south bay. Its a tense night for the people at the south bay mobile home park. Roughly 8 inches of water in the back of this park. San jose firefighters are trying to pump the water out. But they say if it keeps rising we could see evacuations. Late today the city of san jose did open two evacuation centers, one at the Roosevelt Community center. Well drifrs are having trouble on 280 in san jose. Theres just a backup because more than a foot of standing water is just puddled there near the winchester exit. Thats really slowing things down. Just one of the problems. Nbc bay areas maryanne favro has been tracking all day on the sout
Park and san jose Municipal Stadium. Not where we would expect to see this sort of thing. You can see from sky ranger overhead the flooding is up to the headlights on the cars underneath that second story apartment there, and we do know that we have several crews there on the scene. There is a map to give you a little perspective on where this is happening. Weve seen the water go higher than the white picket fences on the bottom of your screen to zbicgive you a sense how high its gotten. You see the yellow tape behind you and the boats over your shoulder, michelle. Tell us whats happening. Reporter sam, its a really frustrating and scary situation for all the people who live in this development. I talked to a girl only ten years old. She said they woke up and saw the water approaching. You can see what were looking at right now. The Fire Department is going by paddling in boats. They are going door to door, knocking on everyones door making sure people are safe and evacuated. After the
Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im janelle wang. Kris sanchez is out in the field. Im sam brock. As we continue to follow the latest, what youre looking altright here is something that people were specifically told not to do, which is to walk into contaminated flood water. We just had a press conference from sam liccardo talking about all the things we know are inside of that water right now. Oil, sewage, household chemicals. Now, this is the latest, janelle. This is a look right now over the Mobile Home Park off of oakland avenue and dish in san jose. One of the areas targeted for mandatory evacuation. 40 homes in the Mobile Home Park, it started flooding late last night and overnight people were evacuated from the area. This is kind of the flood zone of coyote creek, the section in the bottom there in the bottom near 280, that is the area thats flooding right now. And people are being told to evacuate. If you live in a lowlying area along coyote creek the threat is not over.
Another apartment complex. Three more buildings were under a mandatory evacuation. Erik had been watching the news and was ready with his bags packed. The water started coming in, then it came in more and more, and then finally the Fire Department showed up, told us that everyone had to get out. Reporter with flood waters still rising the city issued a voluntary he vac you wigs order for low lying areas near coyote creek between capital expressway and 880. The mayor said today should be a warning to take recommendations seriously. I think anybody in the low lying area along coyote creek and that rain described should be finding an alternative place to sleep tonight. Reporter and that is some nasty flood waters there. The Fire Department warned us that if we got in there they would have to decontaminate us as well. One firefighter said this was the worst biggest rescue that he has seen in 35 years. Back to you. A horrible mess. Do crews have any idea when they think the waters will rece
Some of the thousands of flood evacuees in san jose are live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. T some of the thousands of flood evacuees in san jose returning home tonight and discovering a disaster. And tonight theres a new challenge, temperatures are falling. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. The latest headlines, 36,000 homes were evacuated at the height of the flooding. San joses mayor admits there were failures in alerting people and now evacuees are dealing with a cold snap. The evacuation zone has shrunk tonight. People who live in the light orange area are being allowed to return home. The dark red areas are still evacuated. The rock springs area, part of nagly park, brookwood terrace and several mobile homes park east of old oakland road. We have Team Coverage of the flooding emergency tonight. First kpix5 joe vazquez. Joe . Reporter liz, the floodwaters are definitely receding right now. There is still a mandatory evacuation in place for some of