Counting most troubled world remains closed for miles. And it looks like is going to stay that way for at least two weeks. One of napas county road catherine a rockslide came crashing down monday afternoon on silverado trail at pratt avenue. More of the hillside there in saint helena fell. Catherine it appears that most of the wall of rock will have to come down before drivers can safely get through. Just how helpful were the most recent storms theyve been so beneficial. That 40 percent of calfironia is now out of the drought. Grant just look at this video of the lexington reservior. Which is over flowing. But we can find kron 4s dan kerman live in the east bay tonight at San Pablo Reservoir with more on the drought. Reporter its truly been a stunning area. Reporter the recent series of storms filling lakes, overflowing rivers and covering the sierra mountains in snow. Reporter it is at 100 percent capacity. We had a very wet october and one of the web system and our history in effect. Reporter our snow levels have doubled since the first of january so things are looking up for us. P reporter drop monsters think that half of california with the same thing. Only 3 percent of california was out of the drought. But things have steadily improved. Out monitors reporter the white indicate no drought at all. 62 percent of the state has emerged since the drought. Reporter it is no time to go get to water wasting time sphericalhabits we have 40 percent of our season left. So we never want to count those chickens even though things live good. It has happened that we have had a what november and december and began in january, is off. A month from none of it may not be. A year from now may not be. Reporter back at some of hubble was of law, while the federal officials is 42 percent is out of a drought. Its still up to the governor to lift the drought emergency which has been in effect for the last several years. He may wait until the end of the snow season to make that decision. Reporter dan kerman, kron4news catherine thank you, dan. Catherine it really has been stunning over the bay area. Brittney yes, stunning in a great way. Grant for more on the drought numbers. We turn to chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Technical difficulties deposit. Brittney as far as the bay area we are looking pretty good. Catherine turning now to southern Santa Clara County where wednesdays storm unleashed a flood which devastated a rural neighborhood near hollister. Catherine kron fours rob fladeboe joins us live from hollister. On how flood victims are trying to dry out and clean up. Rob . Reporter once again set up a command post not far from where the flood zone is located. The office has issued a water Contamination Health alert. Informing all the people in the zone not to drink the tap water. A couple of crews just pulled here with a couple of free bottled water. But they are disturbing and the flood zone. People are trying to come back bay cleanup work clean up their house, as if they do not have enough to worry about. Reporter the flood waters that wreaked havoc with scores of homes here on lovers lane in hollister left its calling card in the form of thick, greasy mud. Dennis palmer says its eveerywhere and the damage is widespread. Dennis palmer home damaged in flood i will have to live up all my carpet and drywall. Both cars are damaged with water inside the cars. Reporter palmer says the water was two feet deep at one point. The flood has reced some but the road and many a driveway are still underwater. Residents can be seen ripping out ruined flooring. Garages are trashed, fences are down everywhere and farmers have suffered big losses too. Chuck lenzi farmer our crop that is in the ground, which is covered crop is all lost. We have 5 a. Of these beans and mounted are lost. And now theyre all lost. Reporter the flood occurred after Pacheco Creek over flowed its banks early wednesday, sending a kind of inland tsunami across the largely rural landscape, flooding fields, orchards and vineyards. There is growing sentiment that the creek has been neglected and the flood a disaster waiting to happen. Dennis palmer home damaged in flood they used to clean the creek years ago and now they did not. All the debris from the drought is just building up. Claudia up the bridges and knocking down levies reporter palmer has Flood Insurance, but some of his neighbors, whose homes were also caught in the flood, but are outside the flood plain boundries, do not and will have to cover the losses on their own. Reporter we are back out live here in hollister, and post. Kevin what is the concern with the water tonight . Essentially how the water ran barack the creek seoul, we are concerned about pesticides. Fertilizers, that may be in the water. It will get soaked into the earth. And a lot of the homes are operating off of small funds operating systems like a whale. Small operating systems like a well reporter and you cannot boil water . No you cannot boil the water. The only drink bottled water or use bottled water. You can is a state of an embassy as well to open up services for the county and other areas that were impacted. Reporter this someone dropped the ball in regards to the creek . Last year, and anticipation of the season. We cleared out 100 ft. In both directions. However we are utilizing a drone to survey the area and it does not look like a failure came to either of the bridges. It was down spring. Down stream and the levy wasnt high enough. Reporter once again, water hazard contamination warning curiouswarning. Grant thanks, dan grant although the Russian River catherine coming up on kron4 news at 5. The sierra is really getting pounded by snow and measure by a foot. The latest after the break. Reporter the charges just lost san diego. Grant the chargers will be sharing a stadium with the rams and l a. Which means the raiders have a future in oakland. Catherine storm damage cleanup is continuing and the bay area. That story is next catherine there are more road closures in the east bay today. This one is on marsh creek road in the brentwood area. During this recent storm mudslides have become an ongoing problem along marsh creek road. Grant out of an abundance of caution, Contra Costa County public work crews have closed the roadway. For now, we sent kron4s Haaziq Madyun out to marsh creek road to get an update on how long the road will be closed. Reporter so you guys had to turn around here huh . Yes reporter whats the problem . Its flooding i guess that way reporter a dangerous mix of mudslides and flooding here on marsh creek road in unincorporated brentwood. Means this road is closed Contra Costa County public works crews spent the day this hill above the roadway marsh creek road, weve had numerous mud runs, rockslides, just debris on the road, so our crews have been cleaning it since the storm occurred on tuesday reporter multiple days of rain has saturated the hills creating Hazardous Conditions for motorists. Just take a look, driving across this mud covered road is slippery business the only thing we can do is to close the road reporter that is bad news says Alaina Preston well we are already like, lost, so we had to come up this way just to turn around reporter Contra Costa County public works crews were also busy here in martinez, clearing a mudslide between highway 4 and carquinez scenic drive it also has multiple mud runs that are being cleanup right now reporter Contra Costa County public works Officials Say the closures for both mcewen road and marsh creek are expected to continue until 5pm friday. In Contra Costa CountyHaaziq Madyun kron4news. Reporter county crews have been working hard to clean up debris and quickly repair a large section of alhambra road that collapsed into pinole creek during the storms. Reporter today a fence went up around creek. Blocking anyone from getting too close to the area as repairs are underway. Reporter pinole creek washed away more than 10 feet of roadway during tuesday nights storm. Making the area dangerous and the ground unstable. Reporter the mayor of pinole found the new fence reassuring. Reporter Alhambra Valley road will be closed from castro ranch road to bear creek road indefinitely. Crews are unsure how long exactly the project will take. Grant another sinkhole that crews are dealing with is in orinda. Where road closures heavily trafficked area. This is northbound miner road near camino lenada. Grant and because of the size of the sinkhole crews say it could take a couple of weeks to repair. They say its about 15feet deep right now. Grant luckily no one was injured. The drivers who discovered the sinkhole were able to stop before they drove into it. Catherine storms this week have brought the Sierra Nevada its heaviest snow in six years. Crews have been moving tons of snow off the roads around the clock. Inches of new snow expected today. Catherine theres a winter storm warning for the sierra. In effect until 10 pm. Several ski resorts have closed. Some of them getting blasted with as much as 9 and 10 feet of snow in just a couple of days. Catherine and its been a struggle to keep i80 open with wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour. Travel conditions remains dangerous and even the locals are amazed at the huge amount of snow. Catherine hes talking about downed power lines and outages. Crews are cutting down snow covered branches hanging near power lines. Snowboarding. But, it is too much snow to snowboard. The want to make sure that the public is aware from this area. With down powerlines catherine also today there were some scary moments for a fedex truck driver. Who began sliding and losing control as he headed down a mountain highway in truckee. Catherine something apparently went wrong with the brake lines and they locked up. The chp stayed nearby and the driver eventually managed to get down the mountain safely. Grant there is a winter storm warning still in effect in the sierra with more snow on the way. Chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp is back with more on this. Brit . Brittney that is going to be the place to begin this weekend. But, we do have a winter storm warning and a fat and you want to reschedule your plants. It is nothing to play with if you are trying to get to the high country. So you may want to reschedule your plans brittney we see great numbers, with a record snowfall. And we have not seen this much snow in six years with more snow on the way. So, these are all the changes that we are tracking for you. We will start to see the snow tabling later tonight a roundtheclock. We are also seeing scattered showers. That is moving through the region. We will start to dry out after this. Technical difficulties. Brittney we do have some flooding near along the coast. 46 and 7 fell, a cooler evening in San Francisco at 51 degrees, slightly below average. 48 degrees and concord and as we go into the rest of tonight some 30 degree temperatures are on the map like and santa rosa or same thing before livermore. Brittney you will notice pushing into tomorrow that to purchase will start to recover. Closer to 64 napa and concord. Brittney we will track your 3 the forecast to let you know what is in store for the end of the work week and then we will look after 7 day forecast. Brittney guys . Grant sounds good, brittney. Catherine still ahead. Catherine president obama honors the Vice President he loves like a brother with one of the nations highest honors. This as he and joe biden prepare to leave the white house. The emotional send off just ahead. Grant and next, grant flood waters in the south bay trap a man on an island. How crews were able to rescue the man. Grant a homeless man in milpitas has been rescued after finding himself trapped on an island in coyote creek this afternoon. Rescue crews from the San Jose Fire Department were able to reach the man by boat. Grant they say he wasnt injured. This is video courtesy of our helicopter partnership with abc news. Grant it shows where the man was just off highway 237 near north mccarthy boulevard. Grant the island is normally a peninsula but the rain has been so heavy water eventually surrounded the spot on all sides. Grant Authorities Say they circled the area to make sure no oneelse was trapped there. Go ahead an use sky 7 maybethe warriors recently made reporter a community about a half mile away from the raging russian clipper. River it was flowing at one point. , that its a good 2 ft. Up. Reporter as you can see is not much left. Is an ankle that it normally would not be at. So it was lifted by the water. All of this law amber was stacked up against the wall that i was using. Then had a little bit of organization to everything. Reporter the side everything he is thankful. His blood adults will come up to inform him what was going on around him. His beloved dog woke him up catherine another critical day for the trump team. Has the team faced tough questions on capitol hill. Grant the rainshowers may be out of here for now but a lot of people in the east bay are faced with lingering issues. We will east bay are faced with lingering issues. We will explain after the break. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates, and benefits. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. To get covered, youve got to get going. Open enrollment ends january 31st. Visit covereca. Com today. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Catherine the rain is easing off but there are still big problems in the east bay. Tree companies are fielding one call after another removing downed trees from homes and power lines. Grant right now, kron fours Philippe Djegal shows us exactly whats keeping crews so busy. Reporter nats woodchipper reporter from wood to dust. In lafayette, one familys headache nearing resolution. Reporter after rain and strong winds tipped a large tree onto this house. Lot of water, lot of trees down. Its, uh, almost too much to juggle. reporter Dustin Waraner owns waraner tree experts in the east bay. And, says the past two weeks have kept him and his crew busy, mostly in orinda and lafayette. Reporter where water soaked roots are giving out, and so are the trees. So, we pieced everything out. Roped and lowered everything. And, then we brought the crane in which you can see in the garage. We actually had to fit it into the garage in order to reach the tree, so were getting the tree off the home. Reporter the modesto ash tree fell down on this home at around 130 wednesday morning. The family inside was asleep at the time. Reporter no one was injured, but the tree did damage the roof and obliterated the chimney. Its a disiguous tree, which usually disiguous trees arent as prone to toppling over, but with these soils and all of the drainage, and it just didnt have the stability. Nats walnut creek tree reporter and, in walnut creek, another one of waraners crews on Ygnacio Valley road near san carlos drive. Pretty dangerous. Reporter the city contracted this dead pine tree was almost leaning on to powerlines and was on the brink of toppling over. Reporter Francisco Valdez taking it down. Yeah, we might be saving some lives. Reporter waraner says many of these problems can be prevented if addressed ahead of the rain. Reporter and, he expects to stay busy through the end of the month. Have an arborist out, look at the trees. Anything leaning over roads, wires, homes, uh, address it before the storms come, otherwise it could be a potential problems like we see here today. reporter in Contra Costa County, Philippe Djegal, kron four news. Catherine < a check on the weather. We have a beautiful shot brittney scattered showers all round and black ice. And temperatures are possibly getting down to the 20s. Brittney we have seen a lot of rain fall and snow in our Higher Elevations and as we go into the rest of tonight we will see the cold conditions settling in. We will see a gradual warming trend of the next few days. Brittney right now, it looks like possibly a tuesday night into wednesday or thursday. So we will keep you updated on that a little early. But it will be an atmospheric reversal it means we could seek more rain showers with this system. Brittney in San Francisco, barack the day with on and off light showers. Throughout the day with on and off light showers. Brittney we will see partly cloudy skies, temperatures at 33 degrees. Saturday, at 38 and a few more showers. Brittney we do have a weathered the seventh that will move to the westwe do have a weather disturbance that will move to the west of us prepare brittney we have black eyes of the possibility for tonight. Petaluma at 31 degrees. , santa rosa thirty 1. Brittney dry conditions and slightly warmer temperatures as siegel into the weekend, will have more of the later in this broadcast pericopedry conditions as likely warmer temperatures as we go into the weekend. We will have more on the forecast twitter and this broadcasts. This was an aggressive action taken by the Senior Leadership inside of russia. Donald trumps nominees for defense secretary and c i a chief reading from a catherine differnt scri pt. Catherine than the president elect. General james mattis and representative mike pompeo both blame kremlin hackers for trying to interfere with the president ial election. Grant both of them also declaring their support for U S Intelligence agencies. Steve aveson is here with some new developments on Donald Trumps stormy run up to his inauguration. Steve eight days to go before he takes the oath of office. And its