3 record rainfall continues to pound parts of the Pacific Northwest. As over the last few days the unrelenting storm system has caused flooding, landslides and evacuations in washington and oregon. Cole miller is in portland with the latest. 3 as the rain continues to fall for a Third Straight day across the northwest. Already swollen rivers and creeks have caused major flooding, evacuations, and landslides around the area. Crews in portland worked into the night to clean up tons of debris along a local highway. sot don hamilton odot spokesman this has been a big mess but we hope to get it cleaned up quicklythe record rainfall dumped a little over three inches of rain on the hours. Triggering dozens of rescues. Officials say it could take months to repair this giant sinkhole that opened up in nearby gresham. Where powerful winds also toppled trees onto cars. sot dale hall resident all of a sudden i heard a big woosh come down and next thing i know we got tree down standup cole miller c
Building was destroyed in the fire. Which was caused by unattended cooking materials. The red cross is helping the families who lost their homes in the blaze. 3 a storm lake iowa woman is facing charges of stealing from her employer. Police arrested 30 year old Rachel Wunder on a charge of 2nd degree theft. The arrest comes after a three week long investigation of claims by her former employer that wunder made unauthorized purchases, account withdrawals and cash withholdings totaling more than 33 hundred dollars while working there. Wunder was booked into the Buena Vista County jail on a 5 thousand dollar bond. 3 23 hours after florida senator marco rubio visited sioux city. Were being visited by another g o p contender. We are taking a live look at a house in morningside where former pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum is speaking getting ready to speak expected to show up any minute now. This is the Second Campaign event in publican president ial candidate. He had a lunch event at a d
3 3 get ready for fireworks. Nine republican president ial candidates will face off in the last debate of year tonight. In las vegas this time. Terrorism and National Security are expected to dominate the discussion. While donald trump will take center stage once again. But c b s news correspondent don champion shows us why all eyes might be on his biggest rival. Ted cruz. 3 nats on the eve of the fifth gop debate in las vegas, donald trump again blasted his rivals before an excited crowd. sot donald trump the other candidates should be thankful because im giving them a chance to make total fools of themselves in front of millions of people. But no, honestly im doing a good job for the republican party. People are able to get their votes out. And people may like this one or that one or that one, and thats ok with me. Trump has a commanding lead in the National Race for the republican nomination. According to the latest Monmouth University poll. But its a different story in the key stat
3 3 3 republican presidenenal their fifth and final debate of the year. It was last night. In las vegas. The debate focused on National Security and Foreign Policy. And there were fights between candidates. C b s news correspondent don champion has analysis of the debates winners. And the most talked about candidates. 3 sot debate donald trump i am totally committed to the Republican Party while donald party while donald trump shut the door on a thirdparty run during the fifth gop debate he also took some hits. Going blow for blow with jeb bush. sot debate bush hes a chaos candidate, and hed be a chaos president. sot debate trump 21 02 36 jeb doesnt believe im unhinged. He said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. analysts say bush had his strongest debate performance yet. graphic twitter gov government Elections Team coming in second to trump as the most talked about candidate of the night on twitter. This is the top tweeted moment of the e p debate debate 22 17 37
Like we could see our first snow of 2016 wednesday night. 3 3 3 one of the worlds biggest new years eve parties went down without a hitch in new york city overnight. Weijia jiang reports from times square. 3 pkgnats 321 happy new year . ball drops about a Million People from all over the world came new yorks times square to welcome 2016 and to say goodbye to 2015. sot Janessa Williams arizona it was a great experience. Everybody should go at least once sot abe arrillaga reveler ive e en dreaeang since i was a litite kid totoome out here. A blizzard of confetti showered down on visitors to the so called crossroads of the world as the nearly 12thousand pound Waterford Crystal ball made its minute long descent. Many greeted the new year with kisses, while some shed tears. Natsyou may kiss the brideothers got marriedwhile the mayor and his wife kicked up their heels. Revelers enjoyed unseasonably warm weather. And encountered tight security. More than 6 ththsand heheily armed uniformed and