Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Ues. Creeks overflowing. Tonight dangerous rockslides, highways shut down, emergency rescues and creeks overflowing, tonight the storm damage all around the bay area. Tonight hundreds of people told to fact up and get out immediately pack up and get out immediately after a Northern California levee breach. Also tonight this giant new waterfall is pouring down in full force right behind some bay area homes. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Right now some parts of the bay area are under a flash Flood Warning. Meteorologist paul deanno begins our Team Coverage tonight. Thankfully the storm has exited to the east, but in its wake scattered showers and there will be plenty overnight tonight and through the day tomorrow. Most of those scattered showers are in the north bay right now, marin county, napa county, sonoma and lake mendocino county, one just exiting napa, one right over novato and petaluma is getting more scatt
This is the cbs evening news with anthony mason. Mason good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im anthony mason. President trump filled a key position on his National Security team today. He chose Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster as his new National Security adviser. He replaces retired general michael flynn, who trump fired one week ago tonight for misleading the Vice President about contacts hed had with russias ambassador to the u. S. Margaret brennan is at the white house where the president returned this evening from florida. Hes a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience. Reporter President Trump introduced Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster as his new National Security adviser after spending the weekend at his maralago estate interviewing candidates. The 54yearold career army officer is known as one of the most successful battlefield commanders in iraq. Id just like to say what a privilege it is to be able to continue serving our nation. Reporter as an active duty general,
Dulles and martinsburg stayed in the 60s, but just a few degrees shy and we are going to cool it down a little bit. Manassas 49, 58 at national and most areas in the low to mid 50s and the Bigger Picture still shows a lot of very mild air across our neck of the woods and across our region which for february, how many folks have been eating out on the patio on the back porch and seeing the leaves and flowers coming up. The cooler air moving in and by morning lots of 40s to start the day, but it will be a sunny holiday if you have the day off, ex left, youll enjoy it, not excellent, youll enjoy it, not as warm, upper 50s to lower 60s. I got more 70s coming up in that sevenday forecast. Ill tell you about that coming up. A Montgomery County Police Officer may have saved several lives last night after a late night house fire. Officer john rourke was patrolling near Persimmon Ridge road in clarkbsurg around 2 a. M. When he says he he for a fire. He arrived to find a family which was two adu
This is the cbs evening news with anthony mason. Continue serving our nation. Reporter as an active duty general, mcmaster still serves as a commanderinchief and is less able to make staffing demands. Just last week retired admiral Robert Harward turned down the position, but mcmaster is outspoken. His book dereliction of duty criticized vietnamera officer who failed to challenge president johnson and he critiqued george w. Bush during the iraq war. Mcmaster spoke to cbs news during 2010. Try not to define future conflict as you would like it to be urge because if you, do you are guaranteed it will be nothing like that. Reporter mcmaster replaces mike flynn, who was forced out after withholding information from Vice President mike pence about his contacts with the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Today in brussels, pence said he supportedded the president s decision to fire flynn. I was disappointed to learn conveyed to me by general flynn were inaccurate. Reporter pences trip was meant
Weekend. And bao baos final hours in washington. How you can watch the giant pandas farewell tomorrow. Announcer news4 at 11 00 starts now. Good evening, everybody. We begin tonight with what everybodys talking about the weather. Normally in february that means were getting you ready for snow or extreme cold. Normally that would be the case. But tonight were talking about a winter thats approaching record territory for warmth. Todays high, 20 degrees above average, keeping us on track for our third or fourth warmest winter ever. This would also be our third lowest snowfall total. Get this, weve had less than an inch and a half all season. And as the snow and rain keep missing us, we are settling into drought conditions. Dry enough today for a brush fire in prince georges county. Our Team Coverage starts tonight with news4s sham reporter good evening. Im usually wearing a winter coat and hat in february but not today. We saw people kayaking on the potomac river. One man even had his shi