businesses are still without power. cbs s janet shamlian is in the los angeles suburb of mont montebello. doors were flying off the hinges, and it was just unbelievable. reporter: in southern california, what looked like a funnel cloud tearing groups of buildings in east l.a. picked us up and threw s against the fence as we were trying to get inside for shelter. reporter: and now, the massive cleanup. california pounded yet again by one of the strongest storms this year. massive waves hit san francisco s waterfront. with hurricane force winds. forecasters say it was a rare bomb cyclone that slammed the state. downing trees, one falling on this car, killing the driver appeared a big rig flipped overe big bridge. the ground was so saturated, lanes of the interstate sagged after a retaining wall gave way. mountain community saw yet another heavy snowfall.
hour, ricky is found, hiding. though devastated, they really didn t lose everything. deputy chief one to f.i.b. just so happy. they re my babies. reporter: some people tonight are staying with friends and relatives. and the red cross say they are helping 11 people who were displaced by this blaze. reporting live, mike schuh, wjz eyewitness news. the cause of the fire is under investigation. we re updating the breaking news out of west baltimore. that s where three people were shot this afternoon. sky eye chopper 13 was there as police arrived on mosher street. this was reportedly just one of the crime scenes. one of the victims is a 16-year- old. he was shot in the stomach. there are no details on suspects at this time. there is some revealing new surveillance video that gives police more information on a triple shooting. wjz is live at baltimore headquarters. gigi barnett has details of this new development for us. gigi? reporter: the surveillance video is pa
it has been downgraded to a strong category 2. or weak category 3 now. it s heading off to the north around 18 miles an hour. and in that track will eventually turn into a category 2. or weeker. late tonight into tomorrow afternoon, it starts moving rapidly. you can see the storm as it approaches our region from the south and southwest. it s a category 2. that means that we definitely expect some, perhaps tropical storm force winds in ocean city area. and that s why they have hurricane watches in effect. for our region, we have a coastal flood advisory. 1 to 3 foot above normal tides tonight into early tomorrow morning continues to about 6:00 a.m. friday. this storm is definitely going to zoom on by us. but passing by close to 150 miles offshore. winds are still a factor here. let s talk about them. southerly winds, as the storm starts to approach the mouth of the bay. the counter clockwise rotation will push as far up into northern baltimore county. the storm is going to g
reporter: in fact, only one aftershock may have just happened. maybe just a few minutes after the main quake. it went largely unnoticed. wjz complete coverage continues with meteorologist tim williams in the weather center. let s get more specific with the exact location of the epicenter of the quake. we re talking about an area that is right up the 270 corridor, where 119 meets. folks are very comfortable and familiar with the germantown area, just around gaithersburg. that area, of course, is the center. it was felt, as we have been told, as far south as virginia, as far west as west virginia, as far east as delaware. and as far north as pennsylvania. 3.6, as we have been told, it s not a very large earthquake, by standard of the overall magnitude scale. but this is definitely nothing that you can ignore. it is the strongest to hit the area since the u.s. joe logical survey geological survey has been keeping records. and where it stands in the quakes like it. 2.5 hi