The woman who smelled propane and got out. 2 23 later, this. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night, and we begin tonight with the allout battle, the white house looking to save the president s temporary immigration ban. Legal arguments under way at this hour. The president signing that executive order, halting all visitors from seven predominantly muslim countries. In the meantime, america has seen the reunions. Families racing to get loved ones into the country. The president has said if something happens, blame that judge. Tonight, the arguments now under way over whether that halt should be lifted. Lets go right to our chief white house correspondent, Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter tonight lawyers are making the case that the president s travel ban should be put back in place immediately. Reporter the white house is waging a legal battle tonight to save the president s temporary travel ban. A battle that could go all the way to the Supreme C
Oakland and San Francisco. And this is going to be a 12hourlong closure. They closed these at 3 00 this morning. This also happened two weeks ago here in the oolts. Look at the basically backup from that morning. Both times they shut down lanes because of potholes and the potholes are caused by all the rain. Caltrans Officials Say this has been one of the worst seasons for potholes they have ever seen and this is one of their worst trouble spots. They do have plans to repave this freeway but they need dry weather for that so for now, they are patching these holes. If you still have an option, today is a great day to stay home if you can. If you do use westbound 580, car pooling would help, but its going to be a very long commute through here. So, expect to plan a lot of time for your drive in or skip it if you can. Reporting live in livermore, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Alexis, why did it have to be westbound . I know. This stretch is terrible on a normal day. That is definitely our bu
Minutes. We have so much rain that there is flooding for the area. East bay and the creek overflowing their banks. Niles canyon. You cannot make that shortcut. Central Santa Cruz County has more problems and we do have a Flood Warning in effect for central sonoma county. Many creeks have flooding occurring. Cloudy skies and rain showers and temperatures in the 50s. It will be a cool day in the 50s. The full forecast in the storm watch at 5 18. Michelle. Right now and mass transit. Theres no hk Train Service today no age to no h Train Service, but bart is moving. There is a Traffic Alert in los gatos. 17 is closed due to debris at highway nine. We are going to get a closer look at the impact of the recent storms. At kpix viewer sent this of a branch that fell onto an suv and novato. And south bay, evacuations are in place because of the rising coyote creek. We are live in san jose. It is expected to get higher through the morning. Take a look at the raging creek behind me. There is a Fl
We had significant rainfall this morning and this afternoon. We saw up to five inches in the coastal hills, almost six inches in ben lomond. In the San Lorenzo River there was or a Flood Warning was dropped. Very significant rainfall in a short amount of time a very powerful storm. We saw numerous watches and warnings go up today. A lot of the warnings have gone down, but there are still Flood Warnings out there. Lets take a look at whats left of the bay area. This area right here, this is going to be the creek. And that warning will go down at 10 15. Now the Flood Warning over here in Alameda Creek that will go away at 10 15 up here in San Lorenzo River. That has been dropped. Now this is the one we are watching out here in this area. This is a levy breach and this is right off of the san joaquin river. It uncovers a huge area. But this whole area in here basically is being allowed to take on a lot of water. The levy has been breached. Theres a Flood Warning that will stay in effect i
All going to be evacuated. Decontaminated. Power is shut off to neighborhood. Or will be soon. Decontamination. Mayor was first to reveal why the rock springs area flooded to badly. There seems to have been a unique breach of some sort. Were going to be sorting out in the days ahead. Our focus right now is ensuring these res debits are safe. Coyote creek runs through the neighborhood and floodwaters have destroyed much of what they treasured. I know we lost a lot of photos. Had a lot of clothes i liked to store. Had a lot of shoes. All my babys toys. All of his stuff down there. We saw a number of dogs being closely held by their owners as they were being ferried out of flood zone during the course of the day. We know the Fire Department had to rescue a cat trapped in a tree or had gone to save us all from the waters. San jose also involved in horse rescue in this area also had some horses ahead to be evacuated. San jose had a lot of help from other agents including the county Fire Dep