rain. last night was as hard as i ve ever seen it. go to santa barbara and montecito is under evacuation orders five years ago when they had the big mudslide. they have very steep terrain there. you get a lot of mudslides. a lot of rock slides in the canyons. the 101 today. central coast more flooding there. a woman tried to cross one of these washed out roads and rescued but lost her 5-year-old child swept away in the water. you go further north in the sacramento, san francisco area, 300,000 people up there without power. trying to get it back on but the big oak trees, the saturation in the soil, you have 60 mile-per-hour winds are toppling power lines and knocking out power. you go farther north to santa cruz county. some of the cleanup has begun there. crazy because we expect more storms later this week.
vigliotti, thank you so much for your reporting. and for more on where this severe weather shedded next let s bring in chris warren from our partners at the weather channel, good evening, chris. good evening, norah. the big storm system that we are watching move op shore right now is one in a series of systems that will bring very heavy rain, flooding rain, possibly landslide, mud slides, rock slides and some very strong wind. the amount of rain, this is significant, from southern california to northern california and southern oregon could be up to a foot of rainfall that is going to cause some serious issues. you can see one system comes through late week and then going into the weekend, another system is op the way. but with the system that we are watching right now, the winds are going to be strong offshore and on shore. could be a strong as 80 miles an hour. o donnell: chris, thank you so much. back here in washington it say political storm in the house of representatives. the
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A contractor working for the Montana Department of Transportation will soon start work on Flint Creek Pass on Montana Highway 1 to tackle chronic problems with rock slides.
california/nevada border, received 1 1/2 inches of rain. that s nearly 75% of all the rain that it would get in a year. the national park service says 500 visitors and 500 staff were unable to exit the park after the flooding. thankfully, no injuries have been reported. meteorologist allison chinchar is live for us in the cnn weather center. allison, it s hard for people to understand, wait a minute, 1 1/2 inches of rain, and flooding takes place, to the extent of mudslides, rock slides, covering up all these cars and inspect i cementing them, nearly. you have to remember, this is the desert southwest. the area is not used to this much rain, especially in a short period of time. this is a look at the radar, late thursday night, into friday. you can see that moisture surging up around the furnace creek area where death valley national park is located. you can see all those waves of