The canyon. They will help them flee from the flooded homes. We have Team Coverage. Meteorologist mark tamayo is tracking those conditions right now. Still scattered showers paying us a visit on the radar. Take a look. You cant see the rainfall totals and these numbers, we are talking about impressive rainfall and you can see, san ger ron mow, and that 36 ger ron mow and the valley over 4inches and concord and sfo, 1. 25. Here is the check on the river levels as you can see from the Russian River. It has crested and going down thankfully. It is still creeping up and expected to reach 37pound 7 feet in a couple of hours. That is nearly 6 feet beef flood stage. This that is at gurnevillecht and the rir continues to recede. Napa river and napa will be coming down to sixpoint 16. 2 feet. You can see few warnings out there and we have this to talk about. This is a Flood Warning for portions of south, central, Santa Clara County and this is in place until 2 45 this afternoon. That get extends and thank flu right now we have breaks in the rainfall and this is the radar over the past one hours. Few scattered showers out there and nothing too major and nice to have the break with the intensity and very light and you cant see here. It is coming closer and we will show you the few scattered showers above the bay area. We have partly cloudy skies and mostly cloudy skies and light rain being reported as well. Scattered about the bay area. Here is the bigger perspective out in the pacific. This is the next system developing. There is another system that will be approaching the coastline later on tonight and into thursday morning. Coming up in a minutes, we will talk more about the system and how much rainfall you can expect. Fiewpally, hints of a drying trend and we have a chance to dry out over the next couple of days. We deserve it. Deserve it and need it. They will crest later today. 38 feet. It is 30 feet above flood stage. This is continuing the Team Coverage where people have been urged to evacuate and several homes have been red tagged. Yes, a whole lot of homes impacted by the flooding up here. People are thankful for the break in the weather we have today. It is exactly what they need up here. People telling us they havent seen this in the last 10 years or so. This is above drake road and the entire neighborhood is taken over by the flood waters and here at the play land, peewee golf and arcade is under water this afternoon. Good news, this is about as high as the Russian River is going to get. We are pretty prepared. This is the only way to get around many neighborhoods today. We pitched a ride on her canoe to see some of the flooded homes near old river road. She said civil feet of water rushed into her house overnight. We got it the other day and then today we decided to go down and put it up a little higher. I am hoping everything is okay. In the nearby community, homes and businesses are under water today. Greg petticourt said he woke up around 1 00 in the morning because his dog was barking and quickly realized his home was filling up with water. We had to scramble and get tout fast. I was blessed to save the vehicle. And blessed to save my doggy and dog food. And i am just glad everything is okay. Along neely road, there is so much water. All you can see is the roof of this building and nearby, the rv is submerged. Still, a lot of people say this is part of life along the Russian River. This family was all smiles as they cruised through with the canoe and the baby on board. We will bring you out here to a live picture. This is all day long. Folks stopping on the bridge to take pictures of the incredible flooding in this neighborhood. And not anything the folks up here havent seen. A lot of people saying they have seen very serious flooding before and very serious flooding in the past and this one is certainly significant and homes impacted and it certainly could have been worse if it continued any longer. Now they are waiting for the waters to recede. And it will take a day or two for to happen. Alex, thank you for the report. Officials were busy evacuating people this morning. Janine de la vega is monitoring the situation all morning and has the latest on this story. Janine . Reporter the rescue operation has stopped. You can see, the water here has receded and this is lovers lane and it is closed by authorities. It is still flooded. Fire engines pushed through a rushing river of water. This is lovers lane off highway 52. But overnight it disappeared. And panicked residents started calling 911 at two this morning. My dads place has a foot of water in it right now. Is your dad going to be rescue. Yes, we are they are going to pull people out that we cant get to. How did you get out . Through the window. I opened the door at first and bunch of water gushed in and then we all got out through the window. I am worried about the kids. Two in the morning, it is cold. Nearby, the creek overflowed and gushed into the neighborhood affecting 30 homes on lovers lane and san philip poa road. Holster fire. And cow fire and santa fe fires rescue team worked together and brought in boats. In some spots, the water was nearly 4 feet deep. This started out with a few individuals in a car that became trapped. Their car stalled and the water was too deep and they couldnt get out. They were the initial rescue and thats where it unfolded into being you know, rescuing people from the houses. All morning, emergency crews traveled from house to house helping more than 100 people evacuate and get to safety. In all, 49 people were rescued and 59 were aye able to drive out on their own. It was dark and treacherous. It was moving fast and scary. Driving at that hour and not knowing the water condition and stuff. Reporter residents were shuttled by bus and received help from the red cross. The water started receding midmorning and those that stayed behind tried to rescue livestock. Those who left are wandering when they can return and how much damage they will come home to. Pret tur sure things are ruined. The city has declared them an emergency. And the Phoenicia Fire Department posted this. And the benicia marina, there are flooded homes and toppled trees and overwhelmed sewer systems and few businesses in the benicia area have been told to evacuate because of the rising water. We hope you state with us. If you have to leave the tv, take us with you. Download the weather app and the Current Conditions and the latest on the forecast. I said that i will be the greatest jobs producer that good ever create. I mean that. I will work very hard on that. Coon addresses the media this morning in his first News Conference since winning the president ial election. This is the first News Conference if in months. And was confrontational at times and tim rollins joining us now with what the president elect said. Yes, the president elect wide raking press conference lasted about an hour and right from the start. He reacted to reports that he had been informed by u. S. Intelligence agencies of ununsubstantiated reports that russia has compromising information on him. He calls the accusations outrageous and irresponsible. It is a disgrace that is information row be let out. I saw the information and read the information. It is all fake news. It is phony stuff. It didnt happen. Now, cnn was the first News Organization that decided to run with this story. Trump said he would not answer questions from cnns reporter who was at the News Conference despite his persistence. Since you are attacking the News Organization. Not you. Your organization. You are attacking our News Organization. Can you give us a question to ask a question, sir, can you state. Mr. President elect. Go ahead. It is quite the disruption and president elect trump talked about one of his more Controversial Campaign issues. This is what he said about building a wall along the u. S. Mexico border. I dont want to wait a year, year and a half. We will start building. Mexico in some form and there are many different formless will reimburse us and reimburse us for the cost of the wall. That will happen. Another issue that donald trump took a lot of time to talk about is his business deeldings and companies. Intends to separate himself from his businesses as president. My two sons who are right here. Don and eric are going to be running the company. They are going to be running it in a very professional manner. They are not going to discuss it with me. Again, i dont have to do this. They are not going to discuss it with me. The president elect showed a table of manila envelope has papers turning control over all of his businesses and on the Supreme Court vacancy and who will be the nominee. He said he interviewed several candidates and plans to nominate somebody in about two weeks time. Wideranging and at times. Entertaining and contentious. First News Conference since his election. Ted rollins. Thank you. More continues after the break and officials now investigating a sinkhole believed to be created by one of the storms and they have contaminated a local reservoir. Entire section of road gone into the water below. We will tell you where this is happening. Take one. Directv now. Stream all your entertainment anywhere anytime can we lose the all. Theres no cbs and we dont have a ton of sports. Anywhere, any. Lets lose the anywhere, anytime too. You cant download onthego, theres no dvr, yada yada yada. Stream some stuff somewhere sometimes you totally nailed that buddy. Simple. Dont let directv now limit your entertainment. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. This is a scene where ar portion of Alhambra Valley road has completely washed away. We sent sky fox to fly over the area and we found bicyclists trying to make their way over pinol creek alongside the roadway. It is used as a shortcut between the area of pinole and concord. In orinda it could be a week before they patch up a sinkhole and they washed away a culvert leading to homes as well as Elementary School. Allie rasmus is live where city and water crews are assessing the damage. Arlie allie . Reporter the citys public works director estimate that is this sinkhole expands the entire width of minor road and it is below a thin layer of pavement and the ground beneath the pavement has washed away. Public city work crews are in the process of opening up the street to look at the damage underneath. 15 feet deep and 30 by 30. This road is one of our five main roads in orinda and it impacts schools and a lot of residents. Reporter they said it will take at least a week to patch up the road and repair a sewer line underneath it. It has entitle into San Pablo Creek and into the reservoir for drinking water. They found out how much had leaked. It started last night and heavy rain flooded the section. The water was about maybe 75 feet wide at this point. It covers the Little Bridge completely. So, lick we couldnt any of the bridge. It was just a lake. The neighbor said no one noticed the sinkhole until the water receded around 8 30 this morning. They stopped when they noticed a hole. 15 feet deep on the side of minor road. They were coming to check on the neighbors and saw the sinkhole there before the fire engine ran into it and so, any way. It could have been a lot worse. We have an update on some of the tests that the Water Utility did on the water because of the broken sewer line and this bridge and they found that no Dangerous Levels of sewage flowed into San Pablo Creek and they estimate there was so much rain that the amount of sewage that spilled from the pipe was negligible compared to all the water and rain that is flowing through the creek right now. They are in charge of opening up this and tear up the street and then they are going to have to and they will replace some of the pipes that burst when all of this happen yesterday and into this morning. Back to you guys. Quite the big job they have ahead of them. Senate far away it appears to have water all the way up to the top. This is one hour ago and the water was spilling over of the edges of the reservoir. There is too much of a good thing. Neat roll gist mark tamayo is meteorologist mark tam who mayo is telling us this. Into late thursday morning, it is an active start to 2017. Here is the live camera looking out to the bridge and some of the clouds out there. And these are all the storm reports out to the sierra and out towards the bay area. One thing i found interesting. I saw a report from the National Weather service and they had this. A report to confirm a tornado, you cant see. It was early this morning. Half length of 3 8th of mile and this is close to the arca arena and several downed trees and fences. And also two metal awnings twisted and torn down as well. Numerous trees stripped off the limbs of the trees as well. The tornado, you saw some lightning last night and severe thunderstorm set up the tornado to the east. As you cant see right now. We do have this. Scattered rain showers drifting across the pay area. Nothing too major and it is very nice to have the break out there for the wednesday afternoon. Of course, tuesday, it is torrential out there and significant downpours. Widen out the view here and i am watching more development out here and all of this is the next system with the coastline. With that, they will produce rainfall potentially a quarter of an inch to three quarters of an inch. More with a typical system and not talking about the extreme rainfall rates and kind of a loafer loaded with water and keep an eye on additional rainfall we pick up tomorrow. We have concord 55 and santa rosa 52 and san jose checking in at 53 degrees. Here is the timeline. Nothing too much happening for today. 4 00 and 7 00 and then later own tonight. 11 00. We ramp up the intensity and the morning commute could be a challenge with the downpours pushing in and another one developing, especially after 2 00. Here is the forecast model showing you this and put this into motion. It is not a lot to show you and clouds out there and the chance of a shower and then into the evening hours by 11 00. We have more development and the bulk of the action is just offshore and this pushes on shore early thursday morning. This is 7 00 a. M. Thursday and you will notice the trajectory and the focus could be the southern half of the bay area. And then maybe a few pop up showers as we wrap up thursday afternoon. We get a break finally to friday and into the weekend. Here we go. Temperatures for this afternoon. We have the rainfall today and few scattered showers and temperatures in the 50s. Not moving too much and you cant see here. We have the morning rain and some showers into thursday and clearing skies by friday and into the week and mike and gasia, people will be heading to the sierra and you see reports over two days. They want to head up there. As we head towards the weekend. Some were closed yesterday and the day before. Too much snow. Yes. Hopefully they will get it sorted out today. Just right, thank you, mark. Now to sacramento where a levee has broken north of norton and new hope road. It happened at 5 15 a. M. Today. Emergency services say residents in the areas are not in danger at the time and the most of the water is spilling gricultural fields and roads are closed because of flooding. No new evacuations and voluntary evacuations were issued last night. Still feeling the effects of the storm and interstate 80 closed between coal fax and the nevada state line. And it is being shut down. The snow blowing around. And making it difficult to see. Highway 50 is open again between pollack pine it is and after they finished their avalanche control work and chains are required between myers and el dorado county. Unless you have a four wheel drive vehicle with snow tires. Snow fell in the lake tahoe region and in the last day ant possibility of avalanches for ski resorts to shut down early yesterday as we mentioned. Then blizzardlike conditions overnight and most of the resort operators remained close td today and north star and kirkwood and soda brinks. This is avalanche control operations near his house and look at this. A mound of snow came crashing down the road and right through his front door. Forced to pay the largest fine in automaker history. Volkswagen is pleading guilty. They will pay 4. 3 billion to the u. S. Government. This is the largest against an automaker in u. S. History. They said a grand jury has returned an indictment against six vw executives and employees for their roles in the emissions cheating scheme. The deal announced today requires the german automaker to cooperate in an ongoing probe that could lead to the arrest of more employees. Walmart is set to cut 1,000 jobs. Most layoffs will come at the corporate level. They want to cut costs and shift the focus to e commerce. It is going to happen before january 31st. Taking a peek at stocks. They are in the green and other indexes on the plus side absolutely and the healthcare sector however did slump after president elect donald trump said it has to overhaul and they have been getting away with murder. We will keep an eye on them specifically. They lose out on the george lucas museum. They have a plan to build in south los angeles. The creator hoped to build it at the presidio and was turned down. San francisco lobbied to build the museum on treasure island. They will preserve the filmmakers collect of art and movie memorabilia. This is near the marsconi center and when it shuts down later this year in april. It will be shut down for five months during a half billion dollar expansion project and 290,000 fewer people will come to San Francisco foreconventions. They are focusing on attracting international visitors. That means fewer days of peek period prices and less expensive rooms and they are looking for the San Francisco experience at a lower price. This is the board of supervisors and given final approval to make this tuition free. They agree to spend 9 million to fund the measure. Students who live or work in the city would qualify for th program. They will come from the Real Estate Tax last november. Mayor ed l