We had a break today, but more rain is coming. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Chief meteorologist bill martin will explain what to expect tomorrow. Well hear from Azenith Smith and Leigh Martinez on the flooding, rescues, and rock slides caused by that weekend storm. But our first stop is in guerneville in Sonoma County where 3,000 people were advised to evacuate when the Russian River went three feet above flood stage this afternoon. Ktvu Debora Villalon was there tonight. A lot of people didnt get out. Reporter a lot of people did, but many people are accustomed to this from years past. So a lot of folks do hold up in their homes and try to wade it out and wait for the waters to recede. If you know guerneville were at the play land the pee wee golf place thats right outside town. If you take a look you can see this is one of many roads that is impassable here in guerneville also in monterio alongside the river. It has been raining here hard for hours. And this is the part of the bay area that can afford it the least. Weve been here for so long. Reporter this was the way homes from work a kayak down the road. The same way the trio would get down to guerneville hours earlier. People need their coffee. We run a coffee shop and it had to be made. Reporter Higher Ground is what many residents need right now as the rain swollen Russian River rises to and above flood stage. Water creeping inside low lying properties and pushing against second stories. As you see it, Mother Nature says the mighty Russian River is still mighty. Reporter county officials are monitoring the river calling it moderate flooding compared to previous widespread events. But now many people new to the region havent seen anything like it before. Really the last time there was significant floods like this for more than a decade ago. There is also a lot of new people saying wow this is the first time ive seen it like this. Ive been told the water levels have reached the window. Reporter this home on Church Street in guerneville is sandbagged just in case as it is next to a lowlying area already under water. Were just on the edge holding out until it takes us over. Were parked at the neighbors, were ready to go. Reporter its the the first flood. They said no thats no big deal. I think they said 85. They were wiped out, you know, four feet of water at safeway compared to this, ill take it. Everyone is grateful for breaks in the rain, but im sure how bad the flooding will get before it is over. We are going to be out for a few days, which is why residents are rescuing possessions, even if that means wading through waisthigh water trying not to trip on tree stumps or speed bumps. If the water gets into the house thats about it. Thats all im worried about. I got as much as i can, but you know. What are you hearing about the next couple of days . That the river is suppose to come up and it will get even deeper. Reporter kayaks, canoes, row boats, they are the way to get around. And with more rain, high winds are expected tomorrow. The situation out here in the River Community looks to get even more dicey now through wednesday. Another big problem thats popping up tonight landslides. The earth is saturated. We took a look at a landslide outside guerneville on old monterio road on santa monica avenue. The fire chief tells me this slide might be longer than they realize. As far as they can tell it has been taking down trees. So they have red tagged at least seven homes so far. Not necessarily because the slide has hit the homes or has damaged them, but this is creating instability among the trees. The trees could fall the trees could fall on the homes. These homes are being put out in the rain being told to evacuate because of the landslide. The fire chief told me he expects this to get even worse in the days to come because they had a foot of rain in four days in these coastal communities here in west Sonoma County. Theyre reaching a breaking point where the land is going to start to go. Back to you. From the north bay to the south bay, ktvus Azenith Smith is live in morgan hill now at an apartment complex where people have been cleaning up after being forced out by flooding. Azenith . Reporter well julie, the sandbags are out, but it didnt stop flood water from getting into four down stair units. Residents had to be rescued by firefighters on a boat. The dramatic rescue all caught on camera. San jose Fire Departments urban search and rescue team on high status tonight in case of more water rescues like this one. Just step right up on the roof guys. Reporter this video provided by the san jose fire department, firefighters by boat hoisted a ladder to a secondstory window at a home near highway 101 near 25th and gilroy, rescuing two people stranded. You need to empty that house out. Reporter half the home appears to be submerged in water. Once the two residents are safe firefighters rescue a dog caught up in the water. Good boy. Reporter san jose fire says it is among four water rescues due to the heavy rain and flooded creeks. Down in morgan hill this was the scene outside an apartment complex. Despite sandbags in the front, water from the creek crept into the back of the complex flooding rooms and the carpet. Most of them are busted from the bottom because of the water. They had to build those away. That would never happen. Like they did before. The family spent the day mopping up worried about the next round of rain and what they could bring. My hope is not really like yesterday. That is my hope. But i dont know. Reporter public works crews in both gilroy and morgan hill spent the day clearing out debris from the storm drains as well as taking care of mud slides. In case the creek at morgan hill in gilroy reach flood stages again. Julie . Looking at those pictures are just amazing how high the floodwaters are. Thank you. Now to the next round of rain thats headed our way. Our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking it for us. How much rain do you think well get . Not as much as yesterday, but one to three inches. Were very lucky they would have the break for the rivers and the creeks settle down a bit. Lets go back quickly to yesterday. I mean this is yesterday morning. Youll see the system move through there. Thats your river unloading. But look right here thats today and the break, right . Thats saving us to give us some time to settle down. Now we come all the way down. Thats the new system. This one is an Atmospheric River coming a little further north where it will be a little cooler meaning lower snow levels not as much runoff. Its raining outside right now. We talked about that. But the rain really gets going tomorrow morning. So here we are midnight tonight. This is the computer model now. 4 00 a. M. Scattered showers. 6 00 a. M. About the morning commute you start to see wet on all the roadways. Then 8 00 to 9 00 we are seeing widely scattered showers throughout the bay area. Then we will take it to lunch raining from san jose and heavy up in the Russian River drainage basin as well. So a wet day tomorrow, but fortunately we got this break today. Well a part of the same silverado trail in the napa valley is closed to traffic tonight because of a mud slides in st. Helena. The flight happened this afternoon at silverado trail and pratt avenue. Now geologists worry more of that hillside will give way. Ktvus Leigh Martinez is live in st. Helena and leigh engineers have told you its not if it will fall, but when . Reporter thats right public work crews removed 20 truckloads of rocks from silverado trail this afternoon. But then when they called up geologists they kept the road closed because hes saying things look a lot worse up above. Theyre seeing some fractures, theyre seeing some cracks going straight across. Theres only two plates up there plaits up there loosely held together. They see a lot of water going through there, meaning theres a lot of water inside. All the basin that it is on top of is breakaway sand. Its just matter of time now for more of those rocks to come down. Reporter the rocks first slipped on monday afternoon on tot much traveled silverado trail. The view from above shows a massive rock slide reaching across the divider. This evening the road is clear, but engineers dont trust the land above it. A part of it has slipped, relieving the pressure on the upper part. So its not secure. Its basically floating up there. Reporter since there is not much holding altogether napa county authorities closed their second most traveled road from deer park road to pope street. Its working to protect st. Helenas water distribution pipeline. Its going to come down. When we dont know for safety purposes we are going to have to determine what we can do to remove it. Reporter elsewhere in st. Helena another large problem remains. The trunk the trunk of this thing, it is quite difficult. To get through with the ordinary chain saw, so yeah i believe they may have broken one of the chain saws. Reporter in fact a sixfoot chain saw broke attempting to saw it apart. The winery owner at least had a sense of humor about it taking these photos. In st. Helena these challenges will still be here tuesday morning. Now the public works director says crews will have to determine tomorrow morning in day will have to determine tomorrow morning in the daylight what to do. They will need to go from above with a high probability to use explosives to get the rest of it down. In st. Helena tonight Leigh Martinez ktvu fox 2 news. You can see the rain so saturated. Leigh, thank you. For the first time in more than a decade flood gates along the Sacramento River are open. Rising water prompted officials to manually open the center flood gates known as the sacramento wear for the First Time Since 2005. And to manage downstream flows of the river. The water flows into the yolo bypass used for farming. But they also serve it as an overflow channel to prevent flooding. Farmers were warned to remove their livestock before the flood gates were open. The Yosemite National park is set to reopen tomorrow after a weekend closure. Now that concerns about flooding have subsided. The river crested about 12½ feet early this morning. They have not experienced major flooding, but some facilities have been affected. They are warning that a rock slide happened at the entrance. And a whale now belly ups after being found dead inside the bay. Find out what marine experts know so far. And the new administration at 10 30 why the president elect is under fire for one of his white house appointments. Vice President Joe Biden visited San Francisco today to talk about the moon shot emissions. What he also said about losing his son to cancer and what he plans to do after he leaves office. Sure, you could sit around all night waiting for a pizza to be delivered. But wouldnt making it yourself be a lot more fun . Its baking season. Warm up with pillsbury. Protein. Protein proteiny protein. Proteiny protein . Protein proteiny protein. At least 14 grams of protein. 100 calories. New greek 100 protein. From yoplait. Youre looking at vice President Joe Bidens motorcade in the streets of San Francisco tonight. His visit was more personal than political. The Vice President spoke at a Health Conference about his cancer moon shot effort. Its an initiative to find a cure for cancer. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama is at westin st. Francis hotel with the Vice President explaning how cancer has unfortunately touched his life. Jana . Reporter frank, he arrived a little bit late today about 4 00 p. M. Due to weather delays and a bird that struck air force two down in Southern California. He announced the results of his yearlong cancer moon shot mission to find a cure for cancer. But he also spoke as a father who lost his son to the disease less than two years ago. Vice President Joe Biden has been given speeches for decades, but this was personal. I believe were on the fundamental change to our approach on fighting the dreaded disease of cancer. Reporter bidens own son beau died in 2015 of brain cancer at age 46. Biden told the crowd at jpmorgan Health Conference how that has impacted him and inspired his cancer moon shot drive to find a cure. Even if we couldnt save our son, science, medicine, technology are progressing faster than ever to save countless of other sons and daughters. But theres a greater sense of urgency. He explained some of the Government Initiative successes, partnering with the valley tech workers. Then in three weeks they would set up a website trial. Cancer. Gov. You can type in real words like breast cancer, leukemia, your zip code, age, then find a list of every Clinical Trial near you and every Clinical Trial in the world. Reporter he also cite add new Government Partnership such as a new National Cancer geno data base. Its an open source data base. Anyone in the world can access it. Any research in the world breaking down the silos. Reporter mr. Biden also announced the launch of the new system giving cancer researchers licensing to test combinations of drugs from different companies. Fostering more collaboration and data sharing. He also said access to preventions, screening, and care is critical. It was expanded to millions of americans with the Affordable Care act. Folks, without debating the Affordable Care act, i hope our college in the new administration colleagues in the new administration are able to share. His word is meant to inspire and touch the crowd. What he said just spoke to all of our hearts. You could feel his own pain, but its true. Everybody here knows either they know someone who has had cancer. I thought it was really moving and good to see it on top of all the industry experts. And the government will be behind the effort, i think it is something that affects all of us. Mr. Biden left for detroit and before he left he announced after he leaves office he will be forming a group called the Biden Cancer Initiative trying to bring people together from both sides of the aisle and all parts of the society to find a cure for cancer. And i always like the expression of which cancer would get cancer to die. Thank you. For the first time in more than 20 years there are more women than men on the San Francisco board of supervisors. The new board was seated today and one of those women were reelected as board president. London breed presides over the board. After the vote breed spoke about importance of standing up for what she called the citys core values. Every san franciscan who feels scared now you are seen, you are loved, and you are one of us. Among the newly sworn in supervisors are Hillary Ronen who replaced david campos and sandra lee fewer who replaced eric mahr. A federal judge ruled in the city of San Francisco. They cannot be held liable for the death of the woman who Authorities Say was killed bay man in this country illegally. The judge dismissed a wrongful death claim. And the judge concluded that the city did not violate any loss. Stanley was shot to death in San Francisco back in july of 2015 happening right in front of her father. The family had claimed negligence saying the Sheriff Department had released her accused killer despite her request by u. S. Immigration officials to keep him behind bars. Reporter the Marine Mammal experts are hoping to determine what kill add whale found floating in the bay this weekend. Today the army corp. Of engineers towed that dead whale from oakland to angel island where it is now tethered to a pier. Its either a blue whale or thin whale about 40 to 60 feet long and probably a female. The Marine Mammal center plans to conduct a test to determine how it died. Officials tell us there are no obvious signs of trauma. They have not set a date because of the stormy weather. Weve got rain out there right now. Rain showers are falling throughout the bay area. We have live cameras raining lightly in oakland at this hour as you can see the wet road ways. Some of the heavier locations about eight inches, San Francisco would get almost two and a half inches with a Flash Flood Watch in effect for the entire bay area for tomorrow. And there is a wind advisory and wind warning for tomorrow and the winter storm warning for the mountains with the next system. And as they would need to move in they bring in this moisture seeing heavier showers now. Well certainly seeing the snow levels drop we will be looking at six to seven feet of snow over the next 48 hours around lake tahoe in the higher elevations. Thats a lot of snow. The snow levels will be dropping. Its a Colder Weather system. With that weve got heavy rain near napa and santa rosa and just north of vallejo with some of the heavier showers. Tomorrow morning the heavier showers will be here impacting the morning commute and the afternoon commute. Tonight at midnight, 3