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
Coyote creek. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. Dan ashley is on assignment. We begin in breaking news in san jose where that overflowing creek has flooded several san jose neighborhoods. One new neighborhood being threatened tonight is a Mobile Home Park on oakland road. This is the south bay mobile park. Coyote creek is on the other side of the wall you see right there. The wall is already leaning and officials dont know if its going to hold. Police have gone door to door telling everyone to leave. There are at least 200 units under mandatory evacuation orders. Two of the residents are senior citizens, both invaldez. One of them just lost her husband. There are two other nearby Mobile Home Parks also under evacuation orders. In addition the water is contaminated. Authorities are asking anyone who comes into contact with it to rinse off their clothes and their shoes. There are still showers around the bay area tonight. Meteorologist drew tuma tracking th
Feels like that i wanted to snap but i cant snap. Well help you out. Team work. Well, we do still have very important issues this morning, primarily still surrounding the coyote creek where right now this morning it is at 11. 8. Flood stage is at 10 feet. Moderate flooding is at 12 feet, so your slightly below the moderate stage which we experienced yesterday. We are expecting this creek to begin to recede later on this evening and then well begin to see some improvement but until then, we have clear skies. Can you see the moon from mount vaca this morning . Its lovely because we have the clarity out there but its cold, 36 degrees in santa rosa, in the 40s throughout San Francisco, oakland and redwood city as well as in san jose. Clouds will drift over head today but we will have abundance of sunshine and temperatures, coolish for this time of the year. We should be in the 60s in our neighborhoods. It should be 61 in San Francisco but instead 55. 58 in concord. The winds will pick up o
Levels continue to recede and arent expected to drop below flood levels until wednesday evening. However, flood waters through the streets of san jose and mill milpitas. Though people new of the flooding potential, it all happened really fast. Water started coming in and then it came in more and more and more and then finally the Fire Department showed up, told us that everyone had to get out. Reporter at 4 00 this morning, the stage of the creek was at 11. 8 feet. Flood stage is at 10 feet so until the water level falls, this is what it looks like. Again, im on a sidewalk here. You can see the water just creeping up here. Thats why these string of businesses in this area had to close. The businesses on that side of the street are okay. Theyre on high enough ground but still, its hit or miss in this area of the mandatory evacuation. In san jose, jackie ward, kpix 5. And the morning commute is going to be very rough in san jose because we have both directions of 101 closed now. This is
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