It will take a couple of days before engineers can get out here for the structural stability of the homes to see if they are habitable and residents will go back in and clean up. A long road floating through a river of discontent. By midmorning, hundreds of residents in the rock springs neighborhood knew rising rainwater was not going to stop. In minutes ankle deep, it swallowed 60 structures. It was overwhelming. The Fire Department was going to send someone with boats. San jose firefighters used a protection of boats to ferry 186 residents out of the flood zone. Once on dry lane and evacuees were spread down with water as a way of decontamination from the tainted brown water. It could be sewage coming up from the sewage pipes that are now under water and transmission fluid from cars under water and any other chemical in the houses in this water. Water that was ankle deep and got deeper by the minute. Fire officials estimate five feet at the shallow end of nordell avenue as boat after
Sierra. Just amazing amounts still there and the winter storm warning last night was very much verified if you will. Still have the Flood Warning for coyote creek. There is a site on coyote creek at east williams and last i checked it was 30 feet which makes sense. Thats where the flooding has been. Its hard to get really accurate readings around that site but maybe some will come in later today or early this morning. Look good todayt. Will be partly sunny. 37 up in santa rose a. 40s for others. 50 half moon bay. Much colder to the north. A lot of upper 30s. There will be chilly readings. Sun and maybe a few clouds later in the afternoon. Still a dry day and then we will have that through about friday. Then we will focus on the weekend for acies temperature dropping down from the north. 50s on the temperatures today. Little cold are you . Little bit. I hear you. The heater will be going. Steve we have obviously you know we have some closures on highway 101. I even saw outwitting about
There were any inmates on board the bus at the time. The deputy is now at the hospital. We are working on getting an update on his condition as soon as we do get it we will pass it along to you. Now to the other big story. The flood in the south bay. A local state of emergency has been ordered since san joses coyote creek crested at its highest level in a hundred years. We just got the update. He said since yesterday 400 people have been rescued by boat. 14,000 are remain under mandatory evacuation orders. Another 36,000 are under voluntary evacuation orders. This is the area we are talking about. That orange section on the left side of the screen is the area under evacuation advisory. It includes the area from Coyote Creek North of 280 south of 237. The map on the right is specifically that area under mandatory evacuation just south of 101. We have Team Coverage for you. Mark monitoring the water levels at coyote creek. Alex has the latest on the 101 closure but lets start in the broo
Formal process that we need to go through for reimbursement purposes. Also as streets open, we will be and have been updating the website, informing the public as those streets open and well have more details in a minute on that. When people are allowed to go back into their homes, weve developed a checklist for them to use to make sure everything is safe for them beyond our normal inspection process. We will be developing a debris removal plan that well be sharing with the public in providing some assistance with that process. As far as donation information, weve got a lot of requests to donate. For the red cross, they need only money and no goods or clothing. The community foundation, weve set up San Jose Flood Victims Relief Fund at www. Sanjosemayor. Org. Ill be available for questions and well let our assistant fire chief provide more detailed information. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for helping us provide information as we work through this difficult situation w
Biggest challenge so far and he said it shouldnt be happening in the city. This shouldnt be happening in a city this size. . No. We have a lot of work to do. We have a pretty good idea but we can do better making sure were prepared. The mayor going to meet privately with agencies across the city and county to find out why this is happening. What youre hook at is the evacuation zone. From the reservoir all the way to the San Francisco bay. It cuts you this the bay and through, all the way south of highway 2 they have. With me here on site we have a team of reporters covering the various angles to the story. Keep in mind this is the biggest flood weve seen since 1997. Michelle, we were talking earlier, the scene around you is tough to believe. Dozens have returned here hoping for improvements, meaning they hope to get inside. But it will be a long wait. From where i was tang here, it seems the water has gone down a couple feet. But this is very dangerous and many are hoping it goes by qu