Hundreds evacuated. Tonight in san jose live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Neighborhoods underwater. Hundreds evacuated. Tonight, in san jose, fear is at the flood waters could be contaminated. Im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. We begin with breaking news tonight. Within the past 30 minutes, an evacuation advisory has been issued for the entire area along coyote creek, north of i 280 and south of highway 237. Now, the creek there is still rising. A Flood Warning has been issued until further notice. We have Team Coverage of the floods, kpix5s joe vasquez is in san jose. Joe . Reporter im at 16th and william. You can see the damage here. The flood ravaged neighborhood. They have had Evacuation Order in place here, mandatory Evacuation Order. Within the last hour, officials at san jose have expanded the area to neighborhoods east of coyote creek and west of 101. Let me show you video from a short while ago. The Fire Department put two boats in the water to check on
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
Putting other things up at higher elevation. It was something i never expected would happen. Reporter once on dry land, evacuees had to be decontaminated due to the tainted water. It could be sewage from the sewer pipes now under water or gas or transmission fluids from cars, battery acid and any other chemical that could be in the houses. City Officials Say that they sounded a warning about runoff from anderson dam and the possibility of flooding last week. We deployed our outreach teams to reach out to encampments and let them know about the flooding in lowlying areas and helped them to relocate. Now theres a mandatory Evacuation Order for residents in rock spring and the voluntary order for anyone living in lowlying area from capital expressway through the 880 freeways. Boats and orders come too late for rita that can now fit all of her belongings in a backpack. I have to start all over with everything. The mayor has declared a state of emergency and says floodwaters wont start to r
101mckee. Thats right. Its closed. We have been talking about itw. Very to lead eve traffic report it. A major road is taken away. 101 essentially between its between there and 880 but i would say just call it between 280 and 101. Just between there and 101 you cant get through in both directions. That means more people will be on 280 and a lot of people from the south on 85. Northbound 101. We have a lot of closures on city streets here in san jose in this general area. If you are driving through this be prepared to have a lot of closures. Some are using highway 87 this morning. Itll be slow. This whole south bay drive is going to be an adventure. A challenge. You knead it be patient and perhaps think about alternate routes. 280 doesnt look bad. Can go to the camera with have. Its okay. People on the road early are actually doing fine so far. Lets go to the bay bridge toll plaza. The East Bay Drive is busy. Some of the freeways getting busy as usual. We will touch on that. Thank you.
Training its clear but cold30 some attempts, many 30s around the bay on the peninsula. San carlos and san mateo at 38, we are in there as well. 38 las vegas, 16 flagstaff, phoenixes 45. San diego a bone chilling 49. Some systems coming down wont be here until over the weekend. Until then enjoy the sunshine. We have a lot of 50s. Below average today. We have traffic that is a little better than it has been the first four days of the week. We are hoping it stays that way. We will start off this time with the tracy commute. We can look at traffic that is slow coming in over the Altamont Pass. You can see traffic is slowing down as you drive right through the pass. Especially before you make it to the wind depart. After you get past the Altamont Pass and looks pretty good getting into livermore. The east Bay Community is not badit looks good as you drive on 680 or 580 or even 880. As you drive past the coliseum it should be a nicelooking drive. Lets move along and take a look at 880 in fro