Jess 2shot and im jessica aguirre. Were tracking immediate flood dangers happening right now in several parts of the bay area. Gfx lets start with our chief meteorlogist jeff ranieri. Jeff . Jess boxes this non stop rain so bad that it triggered an emergency call specifically right now in napa, worst case scenario, we have a thunderstorm passing through with heavy rain, possibly some isolated hail. This will help the napa river to continue to rise for the next two to four hours. We do expect the napa river in downtown napa to crest 26. 5 feet by 7 00 a. M. And then well dramatically see this drop as we head into thursday. We have another upset at 11 10 tonight. The rain triggered a call for evacuations. Downtown, parts of it evacuated . Thats right, jessica. The town sounded the emergency alarm today because it looked like the creek would jump its bajs. This creek looks more like a rushing river. For several hours it looked like flooding would happen. In the pouring rain with the creek
Gfx scott boxes we have Team Coverage of this devastating flooding. As we mentioned nbc bay areas krischez is the. She just talked to people who tried to stay in their homes to ride out the storm. So is bob redell, whos been talking to people who fled thier homes evacuating their homes overnight and this morning. But lets begin with meteorologist kari hall kari anim kari chroma wx at ck laura boxes gets back out to the scene of that massive flooding south but we may still have some waves of rain moving in. We just had crazy amounts of rain over the past several days. And as you see in morgan hill, weve had 5 1 2 inches of rain and it may have been even higher over the Santa Cruz Mountains we had 8 to 15 inches. And even spots like san rafael measuring a lot of rain, the amount that we should have for the whole month of january we had over a short period of time. And now once again, a few more breaks in those clouds, a chance to dry out, and a little bit of sunshine so that may help aid
If iran is left unchecked the United States could be facing an i am fent threat similar to the one presented by north korea. Now nbcs ali joining us by phone. Ali, talk to me about this announcement and how iran is reacting to all of this. Reporter good morning. Well, first iran made no Public Comment on this latest development. They were made very late last night tehran time so they have yet to react. The president is out making a speech right now. He hasnt touched on the subject, but i can tell you when america talks tough to iran it doesnt usually go down very well here. Secretary tillerson certainly had some strong words. Also any talk of sanctions or renegotiating the jcpoa also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal so close to elections in this country on may 19th, is going to deeply disturb the regime and feed into the hard line narrative that the nuclear deal with america was a bad one. Iran should never have engaged with america because it was bound to backfire and they cant be trust
If iran is left unchecked the United States could be facing an i am fent threat similar to the one presented by north korea. Now nbcs ali joining us by phone. Ali, talk to me about this announcement and how iran is reacting to all of this. Reporter good morning. Well, first iran made no Public Comment on this latest development. They were made very late last night tehran time so they have yet to react. The president is out making a speech right now. He hasnt touched on the subject, but i can tell you when america talks tough to iran it doesnt usually go down very well here. Secretary tillerson certainly had some strong words. Also any talk of sanctions or renegotiating the jcpoa also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal so close to elections in this country on may 19th, is going to deeply disturb the regime and feed into the hard line narrative that the nuclear deal with america was a bad one. Iran should never have engaged with america because it was be trusted. Its also very doubtful iran
In the country. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening. Our top story is developing here in Rio De Janeiro tonight, where Big Questions are suddenly being raised about the alleged Armed Robbery of american swimmer, ryan lochte and some of his teammates on the streets of rio last weekend. A judge here in brzezinski today has ordered the seizure of lochte and fellow american, inconsistencies of their story over what happened and what was seen in a piece of Surveillance Video that recorded the athletes that night. Late details. Reporter the Surveillance Video obtained by daily mail. Com shows the american swimmers, ryan lochte, gunner bent and village sunday morning after a long night out. Lochte sharing this video from a party. Hours later, he told todays show, billy bush on the way back to the athletes village, they were robbed by men posing as cops. We got pulled over in ou