Through, and theyre shuttling residents back in with vehicles that have a lot more clearance. This water started in a nearby creek but the storms over the past couple of days sent it into nearby homes. Fernando ruizs weekend chores came days early. Hes shoveling a foot of water inside his home. Mud cakes the floor and his future is uncertain. Where are you guys going to stay . Do you have relatives . I dont know yet. Were going to have to work on that and figure that out. Reporter during the Early Morning hours, a storms down pour sent the creek over its banks flooding the Northern Area of unincorporated the county. Everything was under water on parts of lovers lane. Its wet, nasty, debris and water is coming over the road and a lot of people are trapped in their homes down there. Reporter First Responders rescued 49 residents using busses, trucks, shuttle vans. I opened the door first and a bunch of water gushed in, so it shuturse, and we got out through the window. Reporter another 59 people were able to get to dryer ground on their own. We got out just in time before the water came in, but we didnt go back in the house. Were just trying to go. Reporter residents and Officials Say this is the worst flooding in nearly two decades. There are concerns more rain could make this bad situation even worse. If it keeps raining, its going to get very bad and of course then im going to get flooded too. Pretty much, its a matter of time or one more day if it keeps raining. Were clearly moving into the recovery phase. Reporter daylight and a drones camera show the extensive damage, fields normally full of produce are submerged and much of the areas for live stock are flood. Some animals have been moved to the park for the time being. Theres a lot of agricultural fields out there that may have, you know, been heavily eroded. Theres a lot of barns, just life stock, animals. You know, were just going to look for anything and everything. Reporter as the search for belongings begin, many people here are keeping an eye towards the sky and what the next weather front could bring. What do we do, if it comes down, what can we do . You know, theres nothing we can do. Reporter sky fox was up a little earlier today so you can get a sense of the Current Conditions and how much the water has receded. There is a shelter set up at the vw post in downtown holister for folks who cant stay in their homes and dont have relatives to go to. We have a report of one dead cow and a litter of puppies that drowned in this flooding. Were live this evening, jesse gary, ktvu fox news. From hol lister to the north bay, tom vacar is where the water is starting to recede there, tom. Reporter its hard to understand. Lets go up to sky fox right now because what we want to do is show you whats going on. Youre looking at a vast area of homes that are sitting in and between water. Many of those homes fortunately are up on stilts and some of them are not. Some of them will suffer quite a bit of loss but some of the homes are actually above the water level. Youve got to understand whats happening here. All this of water is the gathering of a million acres of what is known as the Russian River water shed. A million acres extending into far Northern California all coming down and finally meeting down here on its way out to the Pacific Ocean at jenner. This is the most ive seen in many years of this kind of flooding in the area that was very common. But with the drought and everything else, it is uncommon to say the least and heres that story. At the rio theater in monte rio, theres one show and its outside, right across the street. This is what the staging area for p g e contractors looked like yesterday. Today, half the Parking Spaces are submerged, along with a huge parking lot, as well as a boat launching ramp 30 feet under this flow. It was a scary night for greg petaccord. My dog woke me up about 1 30 in the morning barking like crazy, and i realize there was a couple of to few inches of water in our house. And not a half hour later the couple of inches turned into feet fast. We had to get out fast. Reporter we saw numerous folks in kayaks, canoes and row boats taking a look at the damage or going for supplies where roads are impassable. This is the worst ive seen in years actually. We had a big rainy year when we first moved here about 15 years ago and it has been nothing like this ever since. Id say this is the most significant ive seen in the past 11 years ive lived here, the 11 winters. I havent seen the roads or anything flooded to this extent. Reporter the owners of this row of had previously raised them up to minimize damage and to keep their federal flood insurance. Just down the road, businesses that did not or could not raise their buildings up are paying the price today and for many days to come. On the long stretch of river road lined with vineyards, both locals and visitors took pictures of the Russian River way, way out of its banks. I vacationed here in the late 80s and seen a bunch of houses go up and ive heard about floods happening since ive lived here, and that helped, i believe. It looks like there was serious flooding on whose houses werent on stilts. The stilts always seemed like a good idea to me. Reporter for many of those who have been through this before, its a matter of biding ones time. Taking it not just one day at a time, one hour at a time now. Reporter back to sky fox, sky fox is up above taking a look at all of the stuff going on, a lot of water is still coming down, that drainage of a million acres is still pumping lots and lots of water down here and weve had a few small shower squalls in the last half hour or so. Coming back to the ground, i want to show you one more thing, and that is right over here, youre taking a look at play planned. Thats a building that yesterday you could see the door thats underneath those windows. You cant see the door anymore, meaning that the water is 5 or 6 feet higher than it was yesterday at this time and from what weve seen here, it doesnt appear to be receding at all, and the reason for that is simply because all of that water is coming down. Anything that adds to it will lengthen the amount of time but the water remains high here. That is the situation in gernville. We will be back here tomorrow looking at the same thing and well have a night report as well. Reporting live, tom vacar, fox 2 news. Thats what i wanted to ask you tom, when you look at those pictures behind you, you can see that the flooding is horrible. Has the water receded in some areas, and if so, by how much . Reporter as far as i can tell, it has not receded much. If it has, its an inch or two, and the reason is the feeder effect of all of those acres of land, acre after acre, tributary after tributary, stream after stream coming down and emptying water. As it finally squeezes through here in gernville and monte rio and goes out to jenner, its being held up by the fact that its a very narrow channel that it has to go through as wide as the river is. Until that other stuff, which is to say the upstream drainage, really passes through here, this wont drop. It may not drop by tomorrow but if we get request comb more rains, especially anything significant it will take a while to drain. This river will be up some time, it looks. Those pictures are dramatic. Tom, thank you. It has been another busy day for cow transcrews in the santa cruz mountains. That is one of the bay areas trouble spots during stormy water. Workers are cleaning up a small mud slide on highway 17 near los gados. It was reported around 2 00 this afternoon and at last check, one southbound lane of highway 17 was still blocked in that area. A city worker says it is the biggest sinkhole he has seen in 20 years. Crews first spotted the massive home this morning. Ktvus christina is there, and it could take weeks to fix. Reporter yes, were hearing it could take up to three weeks before it is rerpd and opened again. Thats because two sewer lines broke and when it was discovered they realized that the replacement pipes will have to come from the east coast and then delivered here and installed. This sinkhole was spotted around 8 30 this morning and it was likely due to the heavy rains. Firefighters were responding to an unrelated call. They saw a hole on the side of the road and immediately shut down the road because after closer inspection they realized all the land underneath the road had completely washed away. City officials estimate this hole is about 42 feet wide and 15 feet deep. Two sewer lines did break, but its unclear if that happened before or as a result of the sinkhole. Detours are in place for minor road, and bus routes are being rerouted from two nearby elementary schools. Theres so many cars that are driving this route every day and busses and tracks and delivery people or whatever, just the weight of any of those trucks going over something that is, you know, not in a good spot could be washed away, that is really scary. Reporter when the sewage line broke, it spilled into the San Pablo Creek and then into the reservoir. Theres no contamination of the Drinking Water because of the amount of rain weve received and because of the amount of water in the reservoir, and plus, all reservoir water is treated in a sevenstep process. What youre looking at live is p g e crews are working. Theyre installing a bypass for the gas line, as a precautionary measure, in case that thin layer of asphalt crashes overnight. Crews will be taking apart that asphalt and that work will start tomorrow morning. Right now, theyre just going to wait and let things sit overnight and begin that work tomorrow morning. A threeweek closure here in arenda so that will affect the daytoday travels for a lot of residents. Christina reporting live for us. Traffic is moving along i 80 in sierra after the crews closed the road yesterday at colfax all the way to the californianevada state line because of low visibility. 80 reopened at 1 00 this afternoon but chains are still required. On the with us right now is dave wood. He is the caltran superintendent for the area. Whats it like up there right now . Right now, im pleased to say we have traffic moving in both directions. Once you get towards the summit, theres places in the snow where weve pushed to the side with our plows and its 8 feet deep. E places as much tell shrink down to a single lane. Were asking people to drive single file, 30 miles an hour or less, and dont be greedy. Were going to get you over, but bottom line is occasionally, when you lose visibility up there for a moment. Its definitely much better than yesterday where we received 54 snowfall in 24 hours. Im told thats a record. Wow, 54 in 24 hours. So many cars use interstate 80 and trucks as well. What did they do . Turn around and take 50 or pull over and wait while 80 was closed . Because it was closed for a long time. Reporter well, were partners with all the states across interstate 80 throughout america, so we send up alerts as far back as nebraska to warn people to try to take a different route or stay somewhere else until they reopen. Weve been doing a media blitz for three weeks to let people know what conditions can do and the bottom line is we never closed the road as far as essential services and goods. We kept Law Enforcement and firefighters, our own employees, fuel and mail, we kept that going but i could not chance having someone driving down with a big rig full of fuel and having to respond in a blizzard. How bad is the traffic backed up right now . Well, weve had to truck trucks off again westbound because we had a truck that ran into a snow bank, may have jack knifed, but other than that, things have been going smoothly for the last four hours. Theyre still going smoothly eastbound. And it seems like we have a little bit less of a backup with the trucks eastbound, and the bottom line is one person gets greedy, everybody suffers. Is there any chance that 80 could be closed again either today or tomorrow . I dont foresee that. The snow last night, it was snowing 3. 5 per hour. Now were getting half inch per hour, which is no big deal. 3 is a lot of snow. As long as we dont get holiday or weekend traffic like we did over new years or the wednesday following that, well be fine. Normal traffic is about 17,000 a day. Were up to 27,000 in 24 hours. That was just too much of an ability to move and the snou plows and the graters stop moving, the road closes. Thank you for filling us in. Its reopen to traffic but slow going. Dave, thank you. Meteorologist mark tamayo joins us now. Mark, some incredible numbers after a week of snow and rain. 2017 really starting off with a big bang in Northern California, those numbers really adding up not only in the bay area but up and down the state to the north and south as well. Lets look at these numbers. These are sevenday totals coming up for you at least for portions of the bay area towards south. You can see up in Sonoma County, over 21 rain. Kentfield approaching 12. San francisco over 5 and towards monterey county, a place called three peaks in southern monterey county, 29 of rainfall. These are the totals over the past seven days, and Santa Clara County, 18, and napa county, 13. 67 so a lot of rainfall to talk about. The San Francisco number is being cut off by me but San Francisco, at least for the last seven days, 5. 03. Thats a lot of rain. As you know, weve had some problems out there as well. This is a look at the fiveday totals. Weve been talking about a series of storms the past five days. And just over the past five days, san jose, over 2 rainfall. You heard about the sierra and all the problems trying to drive interstate 80. These are twoday totals talking about 63 to 17 inches and, of course, they had more snow before this event and they have a winter storm warning right now. They could get another 515 snowfall as we head into thursday. Lets show you the satellite and the radar right now. Thankfully for the most part we could consider today a break day with just a few scattered showers out there. Thats what we have right now. Towards nevada and vallejo. There is another system developing offshore and well talk more about that as well talk about another round of rainfall coming up, well let you know when the heaviest rain moves back into the bay area. Be sure to download the first ktvu weather app. You can get up to the minute forecasts and a look at the radar. We have breaking news from San Francisco. Were getting word of delays on the light rail after police say a body was found on the tracks. A spokesperson says the body was discovered about 3 00 this afternoon between the church and castro stations. There is no Inbound Service from west portal and shuttles are getting passages around the closure. A Police Investigation is now under way to try to determine what happened. A predawn raid nets guns, drugs, slot machines and 20 arrests. Coming up, see what else sheriffs investigators found inside this building in oakland. Also ahead, an important meeting in the big apple about the future of the Oakland Raiders and the teams possible move to las vegas. Can you give us a chance . Verbal fireworks at todays News Conference with president elect donald trump. The Testy Exchange between the reporter and the president elect. President elect donald trump was quick to defend himself today at his First Press Conference since the election. He denounced media reports that russia has compromising information about him. Lauren blanchard has more now on the questions and the answers today. Reporter with a little over a week to go until the inauguration, donald trump pushing back on reporters asking about leaked documents that would put the president elect in a precarious position before he takes office. Its all fake news. Its phony stuff. It didnt happen. It was a group of opponents that got together, sick people, and they put that crap together. Reporter first, cnn published a story citing anonymous reports that russia may have compromising on mr. Trump. That was publicized by a Political Blog buzz feed going a step further of unverified allegations of a financial and sexual nature against the president elect. He and the reporter got in a Fiery Exchange during his First Press Conference since winning the election. Can you give us a chance . You are attacking our. Reporter thepresident elect also announcing he would not divest himself of his entire business empire. Instead, his two adult sons and a business associate would take over the company and its investments, running them through a trust and overseen by an ethics advisor. The president elect saying the decision was voluntary. Don and eric are going to be running the company. They are going to be running it in a very professional manner. Theyre not going to discuss it with me. Reporter thepresident elect also said in his press conference that he expects to name a nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy within two weeks of taking office. In washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. The u. S. Army corps of engineers had a busy day on the San Francisco bay. They sent out two boats to clean up some debris floating on the water following several days of heavy rain and wind. Those involvproject say debris in the bay can create a very dangerous situation. Once theres impact made, folks could fall over, they could lose their footing on board the boat and have personal injury. Also, if the piece of debris goes through the props or, you know, makes contacts with the hole, its going to damage that vessel. The u. S. Army corps of engineers says the cleanup process is far from over and the crews will be back out on the water tomorrow. Lets talk to meteorologist mark tamayo. Its nice to see some sun out there. Are we done with the rain for the immediate future . Theres another batch coming in first thing tomorrow morning. Compared to the other ones, its not going to be as strong. Weve been talking a lot about flooding across northern and Central California and, of course, the