Mudslides closing 84. If you live near the Alameda Creek, watch the river closely. The good news, Alameda Creek has crested at 1 00 today. It dramatically drops throughout the night. The other area were tracking of concern is a russia river and the napa river. Theyre running high and fast right now and were not done yet. A new storm system starts to move in throughout thursday at 7 00 a. M. Were tracking the totals and also the river levels. Ill have several updates throughout the hour. I want to show you this, highway 17. It does continue to be one of the biggest trouble spots in the santa cruz mountains. This round a wall of mud is the issue. In the past 20 minutes the chp reopened the southbound lane and its unclear at this hour when the other lane will reopen. Nbc bay areas robert handa joins us from the santa cruz. Every time they recoup, here it goes again with the rain. The night time hours are going to be crucial to the recovery, whether its clearing up more lanes on highway 17
The ees are waterogged. Rated, and the next break idays away anim kari wx chra kris cu a mudslide in the los gatos north bay, also the Santa Cruz Mountains, near creeks and streams, youll have to closely watch those water levels as the next round of some heavy rain moves in. We will talk more about the timing and a look ahead to the dryer weather and the weekend forecast. Thats coming up in about ten minutes. All right, kari, a mudslide in the los gatos mountains and the mountains a bochld los gatos wiped out three family homes. Those homes, one of them was knocked off the foundation and a woman was trapped with nowhere to go, and nearly no way to call for help. Nbc bay areas bob redell is live there, and bob, this womans story is really frightening. She didnt even know if the First Responders would get to her. Reporter and when you get a look at the property, you can understand why. Good morning to you, kris. This happened in los gatos deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains behind me where
Chief meteorologist bill martin has the forecast along highway 17 tonight. Azenith . Reporter well you can see the mud slide behind me. Caltrans is using the heavy equipment to stabilize the hillside. Chp is hoping to open one northbound lane tomorrow morning. Commuters heading from santa cruz to san jose. Theyre advised to take alternate routes just in case. Caltrans crews are working to remove rocks and mud covering the northbound lanes of highway 17 near lion hill road. Its the largest hillside this winter. Thats about 100 dump truckloads somebody decided to dump over the hill all at once. Caltrans plans to bring in a specialized excavator tomorrow to safely access the slide and remove debris from the top down. We are dealing with the fact it is still raining, the slide, the terrain, the traffic. Reporter at 10 00 in the morning the mud slide shut down highway 17 in both directions. Half of the Mountain Side came crashing down filling up the northbound lanes and spilling into the so
Potential of some flooding there. We get a live look outside, you can tell why the rain just continues to pour. And we are seeing some pockets of really heavy rain moving through much of the bay ear right now with a steady downpour for the north bay. A lot of yellows and redis here. A steady downpour for the north bay with some pockets of heavier rain for parts of moran county. Now, as we go through San Francisco, a lot of heavy rain here. Its been coming down at a rate of about a quarter to a half an inch of rain for about an hour. As we go south of San Francisco, a lot of rain there as well, moving through paolo alto. This is what we can expect for the next several hours, pockets of thunderstorms later on today. Ill talk more about that and also the wind speeds we are expecting in just a few minutes. Kari thank you so much. The totals here, river levels across the bay area rising right now. That is true in waterlogged Santa Cruz Mountains. Nbcs bob burdell has been closely watching t
Please be careful in this location. Were also tracking the Anderson Reservoir which is spilling over pushing water into coyote creek. Anyone around coyote creek needs to be on high alert until thursday at 6 30. Were tracking the storm and the rainfall associated with it. Ill have more coming up at 6 10 tonight. That coyote creek stretches several miles in the south bay. Its a tense night for the people at the south bay mobile home park. Roughly 8 inches of water in the back of this park. San jose firefighters are trying to pump the water out. But they say if it keeps rising we could see evacuations. Late today the city of san jose did open two evacuation centers, one at the Roosevelt Community center. Well drifrs are having trouble on 280 in san jose. Theres just a backup because more than a foot of standing water is just puddled there near the winchester exit. Thats really slowing things down. Just one of the problems. Nbc bay areas maryanne favro has been tracking all day on the sout