A section of interstate 5. The mud is now reported to be about 5 feet deep in some spots between castaic and the grapevine and the freeway is closed in both directions. Some of the most serious damage happened in the leona valley about 20 miles north of los angeles. As peter doubt shows us, homes quickly filled with mud and people had to scramble to get out. Reporter debris flowing out of control over slopes that drought and wildfires have stripped of vegetation. The swift mud and water claiming property both small and large including this boat. This woman had only minutes to rescue 20 horses when her ranch flooded. We went to pull them out immediately. Within 45 seconds the water was three feet higher but you can imagine my horses getting ready to jump into my arms. Reporter flash flooding in north l. A. County destroyed property, trapped cars and stranded drivers. Danny took these cell phone photos of some of the vehicles he says he and his friends pulled to safety. Tons of vehicles,
Makovec. Michelle is off this noon. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. And one of the crashes along 680 in walnut creek, the gridlock stretched for miles as crews spent hours cleaning up debris on the highway. Lisa chan is live at walnut creek where all lanes are finally back open on 680. Reporter good afternoon. About an hour ago, traffic finally started moving again along 680 here in walnut creek. This is a huge relief for commuters who spent a lot of their morning battling grueling traffic. It was a mess. I have never seen anything like it. Its the worst traffic i have ever seen on that road. Reporter he was one of the many people stuck in gridlock traffic this morning on 680 in walnut creek. His usual tenminute drive to his sons school took 45 minutes. I called the school and they said there would be no tardys today because everybody would be late. Reporter the driver of a big rig with dual trailers filled with 60,000 pounds of gravel had a tire blow out on 680 north at main and wal
Coming days. Allen, back to you. Chris, in your story where you showed the worker poking the rod down into the mud trying to see if there are any cars, are they sure yet that they have gotten all the people out or they have found all the cars . Reporter well, they certainly are very hopeful that they have. But there are some areas where the mud and debris was as high as the drivers side window of semi trucks. Its very deep back there. They have been searching it throughout the day though so they are confident they found all the cars but they still have quite a bit of digging to do. What a cleanup. Chris martinez, thank you. New at 5 00, hundreds of seniors in burlingame need a new place to stay tonight after a fire broke out in their care facility. Chopper 5 was over the senior home on troutsdale drive this afternoon. A malfunctioning electrical box triggered a small fire around 9 30 a. M. No one was hurt but the fire knocked out power to the building. All 269 patients are now being te
Temple university student. Twentythree yearold shekorean bennet of harlem street are facing several charges tonight including rape. He is the man seen in Surveillance Video september 28th and moments earlier police say he rob, and sexually assaulted a temple student on north carlisle street. Police are investigating two robberies near temple, both of them involving temple students. A robbery took place around midnight on the 1800 block of north 15th street, and it is not clear what was taken and robbery victim was not injured. A carjacking that happened near tenth and susquehanna around 2 00 this morning. Police say robberies were not related and there have been no arrests. Two bucks county men charged in the beating of the gay couple in center city last september pleaded guilty to day as apart of the plea deal, Philip Williams and kevin hair again will not serve scale time but they must stay out of center city while on probation for three to five years. They must serve 200 hours of Co
Your way. I will help you get prepared for that. Lets talk about our headlines today. We are looking for that crisp falllike feeling very sunny, seasonal with you cold blast is coming this weekend and big store which that is sunday into monday we could see lows in the the 30s. So of course makes you think of the fun things like frost, freeze and all of that. We are definitely, not there just yet. We have 62 degrees. Beautiful day. Wind west at 9 miles an hour. Wind will be one of the things we will see ramp up in the weekend as well. Live look at storm can three shows our skies are beautiful right now. We have had a cloudy, springily weather to start off this morning but that moved out and now we are left with just gorgeous skies. Looking at a high of 67 today in philadelphia down the shore 67 as well. Cooler in mount pocono. We will see 56 degrees. A a few more cloud for you. This is what is happening. We have two excessive cold front and they are opening door to incredibly chilly air